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  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 lit...

  Poetry Quotes - We are the hollow men   “We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.   Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.   We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” ― Maya Angelou   “A Man Said to the Universe A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” ― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems   “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!...

  Poetry Quotes - To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary   “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets   “I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” ― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters   “I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say.   I walked a mile with Sorrow; And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When Sorrow walked with me.” ― Robert Browning Hamilton   “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch   “Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visi...