Quotes by Poets - Page 4

Turn off your phone, and your computer and your mind. Find your heart center and send it compassion. See the holiness in everyone you meet. Honor it.Know your worth. Know your worth. Know your worth.Accept no less. Become familiar with the space where compromise is unkind. Nurture your exquisite loneliness. Let it teach you. Light candles at every opportunity. Always wear perfume, it helps you remember yourself. Touch your inked ribs lightly when you forget who you are.
Jeanette LeBlanc
I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read and not everything thought torments me like the loss of ..... But I don’t see with fixed attention, I don’t read with great care, and I don’t think with continuity. I’m an ardent and inconsequential dilettante in everything. My soul is too weak to sustain the force of its own enthusiasm. Made out of ruins of the unfinished, I’m definable as a landscape of resignations.
Fernando Pessoa
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
Maya Angelou
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Gertrude Stein
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
Don’t read books!Don’t chant poems!When you read books your eyeballs wither awayleaving the bare sockets.When you chant poems your heart leaks out slowlywith each word.People say reading books is enjoyable.People say chanting poems is fun.But if your lips constantly make a soundlike an insect chirping in autumn,you will only turn into a haggard old man.And even if you don’t turn into a haggard old man,it’s annoying for others to have to hear you.It’s so much betterto close your eyes, sit in your study,lower the curtains, sweep the floor,burn incense.It’s beautiful to listen to the wind,listen to the rain,take a walk when you feel energetic,and when you’re tired go to sleep.
Yang Wanli
For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Walt Whitman
Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound.
Fulke Greville
Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found.
Suzy Kassem
Once, she fell off of a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.
Sarah Kay
On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude.
Thomas Love Peacock
And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Aberjhani
When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as if they're still oppressed.
Gift Gugu Mona
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval
DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG
Charles Bukowski
A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought --But no, a butterfly.
Arakida Moritake
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Owen Meredith
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
Jeet Thayil
World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Do not forget about the thorns on the roseswhen you say that love is like a red red rose.
Isabel Quintero
Creating means living.
Dejan Stojanovic
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
The word "Christian" means 'like Christ'! We are to reflect His beauty, do His deeds, think His thoughts, and speak His words. This is what it means to become conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Do we really understand to what we are committing ourselves when we sing the song 'To be like Jesus...All I ask, to be like Him'? Actually, we are asking for everything that Jesus is: His character, His work, His mind, His word, His beauty, power, wisdom, and will. This is a big order, but it is our destiny! This is what life is all about. To miss this is to miss everything. To gain this is to possess the answer to life's biggest question. Christ is the answer! God planned it so. The will of God the Father for you centers in His Son!
Robert C. Frost
Mine Enemy is growing old --I have at last Revenge --The Palate of the Hate departs --If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --It is a faded Meat --Anger as soon as fed is dead --'Tis starving makes it fat
Emily Dickinson
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
Giacomo Leopardi
I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.
Michelle Tea
Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements―Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.
Jean Cocteau
I exist no more, every moment a new being lives inside me.
Suman Pokhrel
At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.
Herta Müller
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi
You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."What monsters may they be?"Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?
Thomas Hardy
What does not come into man's imagination is called a "gift" because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned upand be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free - The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it asks for nothing. ~ Tulips (1961)
Sylvia Plath
A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky.
Jorge Luis Borges
That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suitedsun like a scotch in hand.
Cecilia Llompart
Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamieńska
He didn’t like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.
Denis Johnson
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
He must have been delightful," she said, "when he was alive!
Margaret Widdemer
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyám
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.
Anthony Liccione
I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
William Shakespeare
those who have loved are those that have found God
Guru Nanak
When in love or inspired,An eternal kiss from the divineAwaits us all.
Scott Hastie
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
José Martí
The prayer that is heard is not of many words....but of Oneness
Vivian Amis
Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems.
Gift Gugu Mona
Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them,And they flew . . ."— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet
Guillaume Apollinaire
To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?
Carroll Bryant