Poetry
Quotes - Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you
“If
I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in
your eyes then share with me your smile.”
―
Santosh Kalwar
“I
have outlasted all desire,
My
dreams and I have grown apart;
My
grief alone is left entire,
The
gleamings of an empty heart.
The
storms of ruthless dispensation
Have
struck my flowery garland numb,
I
live in lonely desolation
And
wonder when my end will come.
Thus
on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By
tardy winter's whistling chill,
A
single leaf which has outlasted
Its
season will be trembling still.”
―
Alexander Pushkin
“you
can take this mouth
this
wound you want
but
you can't kiss
and
make it
better.”
―
Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn
“in
a world
full
of
temporary
things
you
are
a
perpetual
feeling.”
―
Sanober Khan
“may
my heart always be open to little
birds
who are the secrets of living
whatever
they sing is better than to know
and
if men should not hear them men are old
may
my mind stroll about hungry
and
fearless and thirsty and supple
and
even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for
whenever men are right they are not young
and
may myself do nothing usefully
and
love yourself so more than truly
there's
never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling
all the sky over him with one smile”
―
E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
“I
Go Down To The Shore
I
go down to the shore in the morning
and
depending on the hour the waves
are
rolling in or moving out,
and
I say, oh, I am miserable,
what
shall—
what
should I do? And the sea says
in
its lovely voice:
Excuse
me, I have work to do.”
―
Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“The
More Loving One
Looking
up at the stars, I know quite well
That,
for all they care, I can go to hell,
But
on earth indifference is the least
We
have to dread from man or beast.
How
should we like it were stars to burn
With
a passion for us we could not return?
If
equal affection cannot be,
Let
the more loving one be me.
Admirer
as I think I am
Of
stars that do not give a damn,
I
cannot, now I see them, say
I
missed one terribly all day.
Were
all stars to disappear or die,
I
should learn to look at an empty sky
And
feel its total dark sublime,
Though
this might take me a little time.”
―
W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
“Of
two sisters
one
is always the watcher,
one
the dancer.”
―
Louise Glück, Descending Figure
“A
poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with
language.”
―
W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
“Be
silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be
true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put
least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor
judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
―
John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly
“She
was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds,
loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.”
―
robert m drake
“I
would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of
beauty.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle
“Once
in a golden hour
I
cast to earth a seed.
Up
there came a flower,
The
people said, a weed.”
―
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
“Love
After Love
The
time will come
when,
with elation
you
will greet yourself arriving
at
your own door, in your own mirror
and
each will smile at the other's welcome,
and
say, sit here. Eat.
You
will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give
wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to
itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all
your life, whom you ignored
for
another, who knows you by heart.
Take
down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the
photographs, the desperate notes,
peel
your own image from the mirror.
Sit.
Feast on your life.”
―
Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984
“I
would love to say
that
you
make
me
weak
in the knees
but
to
be quite upfront
and
completely
truthful
you
make
my body
forget
it
has knees
at
all.”
―
Tyler Knott Gregson, Love Language
“What
can be explained is not poetry.”
―
W.B. Yeats
“Beauty
is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye
know on earth, and all ye need to know”
―
John Keats, The Complete Poems
“You
are never too old to become younger!”
―
Mae West
“I
hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I
want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”
―
Pablo Neruda
