Quotes by Poets - Page 78

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a city or country will just happen to look in the mirror at the same time, and from then on there was a city in the sky, as all cities are if we consider that the sky reaches to the ground, and this city, too, thought it was alive, and the candles walked off by themselves.
Cole Swensen
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Kahlil Gibran
A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.
William Shakespeare
So said Tochihuitzin,so said Coyolchiuhqui:We come out of the dream suddenly,we only come to dream,it isn't true, it isn't truethat we come to live on the earth.Like grass in springis our being.Our heart makes them grow,flowers sprout from our flesh.Some open their corollas,then they become dry.So said Tochihuitzin.
Nezahualcóyotl
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
In those days, he said the following: I can only give you a little; but that little, I give to you with love.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Don't you ever think of giving up!!!
Charmaine J.Forde
A sneeze can never be to far away
Benny Bellamacina
Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
Kahlil Gibran
Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.
Lang Leav
Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concernThat thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?For if thy life aforetime and behindTo thee was grateful, and not all thy goodWas heaped as in sieve to flow awayAnd perish unavailingly, why not,Even like a banqueter, depart the hall,Laden with life?
Titus Lucretius Carus
We're in the business of melancholiaand we are married to our work.
Casey Renee Kiser
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
Fernando Pessoa
So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies
Roger McGough
I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door closes behind me with such solidity, the way my suitcase carries everything I'd need for an eternity of traveling light. I've left my hotel number on your desk, instructions about the dog and heating dinner. But like the weather front they warn is on its way with its switchblades of wind and ice, our lives have minds of their own.
Linda Pastan
He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
Danabelle Gutierrez
The bigger the dream, the better the story.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles
A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes
Munia Khan
How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
Sherman Alexie
The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.
Wallace Stevens
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare
Where words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
Avijeet Das
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
For a long moment we didn't move. We just stared at each other. So much time had passed since our eyes last met. So much had changed. I turned away and pressed my head to the cold window pane. I traced my initials onto the misted glass and, as they began to fade, He reached out his fingers and retraced my signature. I watched it fade once more and felt his moist fingers brush against my lips. He let them linger there a moment, then replaced them with his own lips. Then I woke up.
RJ Arkhipov
Out of the darkness, out of the night,May I find joy and all that is right:Open my eyes, so I'll see the lightThat comes when we have spiritual sight.~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Infinite Spirit, Abide With Me" (1940's)
Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
Study is the child of silence and mystery.
Henri Murger
You said: "Wait for the moon with me."I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
William Shakespeare
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every problem comes with a baggage of solutions.
Santosh Kalwar
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.
Santosh Kalwar
I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.
Charles Bukowski
I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I’m having sex with words in front of you. I’m playing around with them. I’m getting off. I’m trying to titillate you. There’s this magical substance, language, that I’m laying out for you. Then you’re going to fondle it.
Wayne Koestenbaum
But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse
Art like life is an open secret.
Lawrence Durrell
At that time I also had, for a short while, the strength to bear it. But all too soon I lost external sight of the shape of that beautiful man, and I saw him disappear to nothing, so quickly melting away and fusing together that I could not see or observe him outside of me, nor discern him within me. It was to me at that moment as if we were one without distinction.
Hadewijch
The only shame is the sin.
Aphra Behn
They all have tired mouthsand bright seamless souls.And a longing (as for sin)sometimes haunts their dreams.They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still,like many, many intervalsin his might and melody.Only when they spread their wingsare they wakers of a wind:as if God with his broad sculptor-hands leafed through the pagesin the dark book of the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
E.E. Cummings
The worst of faces still is human.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;I 'most could touch it with my hand!And reaching up my hand to try,I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Edith Södergran
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
Charles Bukowski
The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting
Munia Khan
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
William Shakespeare
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
Robert Frost
No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore
Rainer Maria Rilke
To the knights of faith nobody believes.
Dejan Stojanovic