Quotes by Poets - Page 371

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.
Anthony Liccione
Be wary of any man who is quick to put down another man's faith. His love for Truth is not deep enough for him to want to explore additional truths outside his borders. The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. Thus, a man with a closed heart is already blind to understand the words of his own faith.
Suzy Kassem
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Some say an army of horsemensome an army on footothers say ships laden for warare the fairest things on earth.But I say the fairest sighton this dark earthis the face of the one you love.Nor is it hard to understand:love has humbled the heartsof the proudest queens.And I would rather see you now stepping over my thresholdthan any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.
Alison Croggon
It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
Roman Payne
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.
Gift Gugu Mona
A person looked at me and said "I can't believe you eat ice cream when it's cold out" "I replied oh that's nothing I drink water also when it rains
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.
Roman Payne
The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.
Mary Karr
We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.
Jay Woodman
Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I have two ways of loving You: A selfish one And another way that is worthy of You. In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone. In that other love, You lift the veil And let me feast my eyes on Your living face.
Rabia Al-Adawiyya
Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.
Anthony Liccione
That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.
Dániel Berzsenyi
One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.
Jim Morrison
Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.
Nicholas Trandahl
Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality
Munia Khan
The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.
Robert Graves
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
Criss Jami
He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours – that is what one must arrive at. Loneliness of the kind one knew as a child, when the grown-ups went back and forth bound up in things which seemed grave and weighty because they looked so busy, and because one had no idea what they were up to.And when one day you realise that their preoccupations are meagre, their professions barren and no longer connected to life, why not continue to look on them like a child, as if on something alien, drawing on the depths of your own world, on the expanse of your own solitude, which itself is work and achievement and a vocation? Why wish to exchange a child’s wise incomprehension for rejection and contempt, when incomprehension is solitude, whereas rejection and contempt are ways of participating in what, by precisely these means, you want to sever yourself from?
Rainer Maria Rilke
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Carmen Naranjo
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth.
Suzy Kassem
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.
Siri Hustvedt
Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
Dejan Stojanovic
In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.
Margaret Atwood
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.
Rabindranath Tagore
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown.
Rainer Maria Rilke
New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
Criss Jami
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Corneille
I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart
Judy Croome
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.
Ryōkan
Be careful—my heart is broken—and you could fall in
John J. Geddes
My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
Emily Dickinson
Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies
Bashō Matsuo
Moments give birth to new memories
Munia Khan
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
Joseph Brodsky
Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.
Santosh Kalwar
You know the parlor trick.wrap your arms around your own bodyand from the back it looks likesomeone is embracing youher hands grasping your shirther fingernails teasing your neckfrom the front it is another storyyou never looked so aloneyour crossed elbows and screwy grinyou could be waiting for a tailorto fit you with a straight jacketone that would hold you really tight.
Billy Collins
...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.
Kelli Russell Agodon
I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.
Sherman Alexie
I am still searching for a popular prayer which doesn’t seek materialistic or other benefits from God and is a simple prayer which simply expresses gratitude in Him and believes what He does will be for our best…
Neelam Saxena Chandra
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
Orson F. Whitney
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Homer
and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you always knew that you had to take what they were giving since that was all you were going to get but you never fooled yourself about either the taking or the giving or the needing or the having you just sort of said to yourself I'll have to see what is being offered
Nikki Giovanni
God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.
Criss Jami
Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.
William Collins
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
Kingsley Amis