Quotes by Poets - Page 474

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.
Rabindranath Tagore
The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
John Keats
There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream.
Maya Angelou
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
Kay Boyle
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
Maya Angelou
free from ivory-towerthe pencil twirlsacross the footpath
Santosh Kalwar
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
Barbara Kingsolver
The white flower of a blameless life.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
Qiu Xiaolong
Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart
Munia Khan
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Christina Rossetti
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business.
Suzy Kassem
Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
W.B. Yeats
Whatever we sayWe're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We're lying
Merrit Malloy
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
George Moore
Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.
Dejan Stojanovic
Does God knowthe number of kissesbefore we fall in love?Yesterday, I was nobodyand I believed myself important.Today,I feel my worth in you.You, with your emerald eyes and ebony hair,even your heartbeat is beautiful.You, who is my greatest joy,all other concerns vanish in your presence.You swallow timeand consume space,inspiring all my passionwith a single embrace.I love your existence.
Kamand Kojouri
I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
Allen Ginsberg
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
Michael Morpurgo
When we were young, not so long agoFame was my favorite television show,Lydia brought out the dancer in you and me,There was Coco, Holly and Shorofsky,Glued to my set to watch them dance and actLeroy was my favorite dancer on that setCleo really won my heart; she later rose to “Fame”I will never forget Irene Cara’s song “Remember My Name
Charmaine J.Forde
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
Barbara Kingsolver
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.
Alexander Pope
I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.
Adam Zagajewski
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Johann von Goethe
Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Since Drake told me that day in the wooded lot,while the leaves agreed with gravity and left the trees,that he liked boys instead of girls, it's been easier to love him. Loving him feels like counting or usingthe phone or something else that's effortless. I'm likea leaf with nothing to do but fall.
Karen Finneyfrock
What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradition perceives as rooted in a fear of being vulnerable in a future old age, so that one hoards possessions in the present. But most often our depression is unexpressed anger, and it manifests itself as the sloth of disobedience, a refusal to keep up the daily practices that would keep us in good relationship to God and to each other. For when people allow anger to build up inside, they begin to perform daily tasks resentfully, focusing on the others as the source of their troubles. Instead of looking inward to find the true reason for their sadness - with me , it is usually a fear of losing an illusory control - they direct it outward, barreling through the world, impatient and even brutal with those they encounter, especially those who are closest to them.
Kathleen Norris
Shake it off little girl, dry your tears, suck it up and face your fears.
Sai Marie Johnson
Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.
Ruth Padel
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
Criss Jami
Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
John Milton
Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar strumming skills are so cool that I can't stop marveling at the music wafting around here.
Avijeet Das
The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.
Vivian Amis
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
Sherman Alexie
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Criss Jami
I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.
W.H. Auden
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
Maya Angelou
If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest. If I can’t be your love, then let me be a forgotten coin so I may rest a while against your thigh. If I can’t be your love, then let me be an unlit cigarette so I may rest a while in between your lips. If I can’t be your love, then let me at least remain in these words so I may rest a while in your thoughts.
Kamand Kojouri
Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.
Tyler Knott Gregson
When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.
Zoë Brigley
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
William Shakespeare
Philosophy is one reason which could lead to death.
Santosh Kalwar
An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.
Criss Jami
God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with thankfulness, instead of trying to cling on and wish that things were different. I believe that you should let them go in peace with love, not try to hang on to their spirits, just hold the precious moments gently in your heart.
Jay Woodman
A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Do you believe in magic?" she asked. "I believe in you," he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.
John Mark Green
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.
Carolyn Forché
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.
Aberjhani