Quotes by Poets - Page 377

The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.
Carroll Bryant
America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man
Phil Volatile
Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,Though he'd lived a crazy man,When he died he was sane once more.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I have more care to staythan will to go.
William Shakespeare
If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.
Richelle E. Goodrich
From chaos to lullabiesI watched herlive my thoughts,and soon enoughshe did becomemy favorite stony.She was everythingand with every wordshe drew me closer.She drew me into her story,a storyI knew I would neverbe able to understand.
Robert M. Drake
Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.
Turcois Omine
Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Experience is more important than knowledge.
Santosh Kalwar
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
Michael Ondaatje
It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.
Anne Michaels
We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Hermann Hesse
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.
Judith Wright
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Criss Jami
When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.
Margaret Atwood
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
Anna Akhmatova
You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.
Anthony Liccione
Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots.
Robert Bly
I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.
Suzy Kassem
No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.
Antoinette Deshouliere
Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
Kahlil Gibran
Be true to your word and your work and your friend.
John Boyle O'Reilly
You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose you is the great desire.Now all flesh bares itself to you.On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire.Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine.Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.But now, like a whispering in dark streets,rumors of God run through your dark blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise?
William Carlos Williams
The reason I don't Kill Myselfis because I know I can.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into.
Diane Ackerman
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
Suzy Kassem
An incomplete fulfillment of a sweet dream can slowly turn it caustic.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
You smile upon your friend to-day,To-day his ills are over;You hearken to the lover's say,And happy is the lover.'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never:I shall have lived a little whileBefore I die for ever.
A.E. Housman
On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.
Robert Graves
a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.
Billy Collins
Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.
Kahil Gibran
A heart anchored in money will only drift away.
Anthony Liccione
It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books
Gérard de Nerval
He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.
Thomas Hardy
yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut
Charles Bukowski
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
John Dryden
Ad we interviewing each other?Something like that.What position am I applying for?Best friend.I thought I already had the job.Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
Robert Burns
it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.
René Daumal
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.
Sylvia Plath
My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed,But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.
Erin Hanson
SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.
Herta Müller
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time. And the dazzleOf light upon the waters is as nothing beside the changesWrought therein, just as our waywardness meansNothing against the steady pull of things over the edge.Nobody can stop the flow, but nobody can start it either.Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,And what is invisible stays that way. Desire has fled,Leaving only a trace of perfume in its wake,And so many people we loved have gone,And no voice comes from outer space, from the foldsOf dust and carpets of wind to tell us that thisIs the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knewHow long the ruins would last we would never complain.
Mark Strand
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan
Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.
Shane L. Koyczan
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki Giovanni
What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)
Charles de Leusse
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
Mahmoud Darwish
Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind
John Dryden
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me
Stanley Victor Paskavich
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.
Benny Bellamacina