Quotes by Poets - Page 71

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
Lucretius
I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie
Charles Bukowski
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
I am amazed how little women cry nowadays, and then apologetically. I worry when shame or disuse begins to steal away such a natural function. To be a flowering tree and to be moist is essential, otherwise you will break. Crying is good, it is right. It does not cure dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
Lord Byron
There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.
Stéphane Mallarmé
There's no end. There's no endto this world, everlasting.We crumble to dust in its arms.
Patrick Phillips
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I’m obsessed by Time Magazine.I read it every week.Always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s seriousbut me.
Allen Ginsberg
Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.
Criss Jami
Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
Margaret Atwood
THE THINGS POETS & WRITERS DO THAT I LOVEListen to the AncestorsAcknowledge their influences Trust their gut-feelings and act on themMaintain openness. Play Dance with languagesBe bold Refuse servilityAvoid arroganceEmbrace the unknownLove the journey Respect one’s fellow journeyers
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Beshrew your eyes,They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;One half of me is yours, the other half yours,Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,And so all yours.
William Shakespeare
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
James Broughton
Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?
John Dryden
This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
Emily Dickinson
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Alexander Smith
Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts
Sherman Alexie
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
Margaret Atwood
The world's supply of heartache is secure. There's love and hate and mayhem everywhere.
Thomas Lynch
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
Gail White
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.
Max Ehrmann
As once the winged energy of delightcarried you over childhood's dark abysses,now beyond your own life build the greatarch of unimagined bridges.Wonders happen if we can succeedin passing through the harshest danger;but only in a bright and purely grantedachievement can we realize the wonder.To work with Things in the indescribablerelationship is not too hard for us;the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,and being swept along is not enough.Take your practiced powers and stretch them outuntil they span the chasm between twocontradictions...For the godwants to know himself in you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
Dejan Stojanovic
Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud
Benny Andersen
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.
Stephen Crane
Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
Ikkyu
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
George Moore
Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.
Anthony Liccione
I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.
Al Purdy
LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter,a shade thrown over his face.What a waste, I thought.What relief.
Jameson Fitzpatrick
When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.
Phil Volatile
The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.
Criss Jami
Some stories are incomplete but they are beautiful...
Avijeet Das
The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.
Jack Kerouac
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William Shakespeare
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Criss Jami
Love's night and a lampJudged our vows:That she would love me everAnd I should never leave her.Love's night and you, lamp,Witnessed the pact.Today the vow runs:"Oaths such as these, waterwords."Tonight, lamp,Witness her lying- In other arms.
Meleager
The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one,Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B. Yeats
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am
William Shakespeare
Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.
Paul Valéry
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
W.H. Auden
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Barbara Kingsolver
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?
Catherynne M. Valente
..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy. Moloch whom I abandon. Wake up in Moloch.. Light streaming out of the sky.Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! Invisible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! Blind capitals! Demonic industries! Spectral nations! Invincible madhouses! Granite cocks! Monstrous bombs!They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven.. Pavements, trees, radios, tons. Lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us.
Allen Ginsberg
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.
Suzy Kassem
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away
Bashō Matsuo
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
Madness has no sense of humour
Adam Foulds
Be gentle,always delicatewith every soulyou meet,for every single morningyou wake up,there is someoneWishing,silentlyand secretly,that theyhad not.
Tyler Knott Gregson