Quotes by Poets - Page 355

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
Sylvia Plath
Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse.
Roger Zelazny
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
W.H. Auden
All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.
Anthony Liccione
The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are “Hello, Beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home
Richard Brautigan
But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.
Eugene Field
Where do the words gowhen we have said them?
Margaret Atwood
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
Santosh Kalwar
It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.
Dylan Thomas
And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
Alison Croggon
And then in a moment of pure magic, our lips touch tenderly and sensitively!
Avijeet Das
Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.
Criss Jami
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.
Criss Jami
With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?
Anthony Liccione
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
Thomas Watson
Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson
In all the flames of fire fume’s left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?
Munia Khan
So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words
W.S. Merwin
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me
Jack Kerouac
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
Criss Jami
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
Hermann Hesse
True love takes time. It’s an earned comfort that tells you she’ll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the same.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I write what I love.I will not stop – even when my hand hurts….…. because I cannot stop – even though my heart hurts….
Ranata Suzuki
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather
Henrik Ibsen
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
Carolyn Kizer
I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.
Maggie Nelson
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost
Sweets to the sweet farewell!
William Shakespeare
I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.
Joy Davidman
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.
Jay Woodman
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.
Nayyirah Waheed
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
Laurie Lee
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Caroline Richards
Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
Richelle E. Goodrich
Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.
Criss Jami
The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.
Scott Hastie
Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.
Anthony Liccione
So often we confuse mistakes for soul mates, lessons forlovers, and at the same time worthy life partners for one-night stands. It’s an epidemic.
Akif Kichloo
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
William Shakespeare
We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...
Calvin Miller
You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?
Jalaluddin Rumi
It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
We are treated different because we want to be treated different.
Santosh Kalwar
Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.
Kathleen Norris
Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
Siri Hustvedt
How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even animals could do. As if she were carrying water from a well, or peeling potatoes."These reflections calmed him. A rare peace descended upon his soul. His mind stopped darting from subject to subject. He could not help smiling...
Boris Pasternak
I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.
Avijeet Das
I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD.
Santosh Kalwar
i need someonewho knows struggleas well as i dosomeonewilling to hold my feet in their lapon days it is too difficult to standthe type of person who givesexactly what i needbefore i even know i need itthe type of lover who hears meeven when i do not speakis the type of understandingi demand- the type of lover i need
Rupi Kaur
By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize their isolation. Often these are people who never left at all, or fled back to the safety of the town after a try at college a few hundred miles from home, or returned after college regarding the values of the broader, more pluralistic world they had encountered as something to protect themselves and their families from...
Kathleen Norris
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Wallace Stevens
The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.
Anthony Liccione
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
Franz Werfel
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- Romeo -
William Shakespeare
Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
Look deeper through the telescopeand do not be afraid when the starscollide towards the darkness,because sometimes the most beautifulthings begin in chaos.
Robert M. Drake