Quotes by Poets - Page 101

Santosh Kalwar

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Chinua Achebe

Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.

Santosh Kalwar

Man's the bad child of the universe.

James Oppenheim

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,Though you are the sister of the river willows,I will kill you with my singing,Without spilling your blood on the ground.Not touching you with my hand,Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you,But with your unimaginable groansI will finally slake my thirst.From her, who wandered the earth before me,Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame,From her, who still exists in the ether—From her you will set me free.

Anna Akhmatova

Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Life’s journey doesn’t start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid out for us to observe before setting foot on the path. No. Life’s journey begins on a low road, in a valley, or even down inside a pit where the trail beyond can only be seen in short stretches, and any obstacles are met as they come. This makes life trying, even scary at times. Have faith that God gave you this life, and hence it is worth seeing through to the end of the trail.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I Read the Book"When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught of my life,Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

Walt Whitman

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

Emily Dickinson

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

William Shakespeare

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

Roger Zelazny

While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.

Barbara Kingsolver

The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution.

Michel Houellebecq

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]

Anne Bradstreet

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

Heinrich von Kleist

The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.

Margaret Atwood

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

Dejan Stojanovic

Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty.

Munia Khan

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen — and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Joel Barlow

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?

Jack Kerouac

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

Kamand Kojouri

All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching.I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

Fernando Pessoa

Nights would have been expressionlesshad it not been for the moon.The moon, I say, is a mood.

Geetika Kohli

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

Sai Marie Johnson

Ntozake Shange

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Anthony Liccione

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Criss Jami

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

Sylvia Plath

Thou seekest Lailâ. Yet she manifesteth herself within thee.Thou deemest her to be elsewhere, but elsewhere existeth not.That is a madness, well-known to lovers. So be on your guard, for otherness is the epitome of separation.Seest thou not, how her beauty enfoldeth thee.She disappeareth only if thou refusest part of thee.Come close to me, thou sayst to her, to her who is thine All.And when she loveth thee, she leadeth thee to thyself.Bliss ineffable is the meeting with her.No one reacheth her, who knoweth not essence without form.I have dissimulated about her,After I had truly displayed her through my veil.I hid her from myself, with the garment of mine own existence,And, out of jealousy, I hid her from the envier.Dazzling beauty! Should the light of thy countenanceTouch the eyes of a blind man, he would see each particle of dust.She is adorned with every grace pertaining unto beauty.And wherever she appeareth, she is desired by those who love.(Diwân)

Muhammad al-Harrâq

Where no hope is left is left no fear.

John Milton

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.

Jorge Luis Borges

Love will find you when you least expect it to. It will come unannounced and find you in an unusual moment on the strangest of days!

Avijeet Das

I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it  will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty  lovely because of the danger which works away at it overwhelms it undermines it. Oh let me be only utter  beauty I shall go quickly or slowly but I shall dare what must be dared. I shall destroy appearances the  casings will burn away and one evening I shall appear there in the palm of your hand quiet and pure like a  glass statuette. You will see me. Round about me there will be nothing left.

Jean Genet

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

Dejan Stojanovic

You are only limited by your own imagination

Benny Bellamacina

Love is more beautiful when it's real.

Gift Gugu Mona

The night is still waiting.

Dejan Stojanovic

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Henry S. Leigh

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

Thomas Moore

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

Sherman Alexie

There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then slowly spreads. Spreads to the whole body. You fall deeply into it. This feeling.

Avijeet Das

I'll be the invisible girl,Everyone passing through me,No one touching.

Gary Soto

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

Thomas Watson

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Dejan Stojanovic

At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone

Federico García Lorca

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Jalaluddin Rumi

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

Jean Cocteau

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)

Jim Harrison

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

Mina Loy

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred He quoth: "A large cold bottle and a small hot bird!"

Eugene Field

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It seemed as if the valley were not always girded by woods, growing on the surrounding hills and facing away from the horizon, but the trees had only taken up their places now, rising out of the ground to offer their condolences. He almost waved away the tangible beauty of the hour like a crowd of persistent friends, almost said to the lingering afterglow, 'thank you, thank you, I'll be all right.'

Boris Pasternak

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