Famous Quotes

How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity.

~ Emily Dickinson

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.

~ William Shakespeare

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:I love not Man the less, but Nature more,From these our interviews, in which I stealFrom all I may be, or have been before,To mingle with the Universe, and feelWhat I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

~ George Gordon Byron

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

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

~ William Blake

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you like a thing,shrewd and secretive.I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,as it goes toward action;and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is coming near,I want to be with those who know secret thingsor else alone.I want to be a mirror for your whole body,and I never want to be blind, or to be too oldto hold up your heavy and swaying picture.I want to unfold.I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,because where I am folded, there I am a lie.and I want my grasp of things to betrue before you. I want to describe myselflike a painting that I looked atclosely for a long time,like a saying that I finally understood,like the pitcher I use every day,like the face of my mother,like a shipthat carried methrough the wildest storm of all.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost

~ John Green

What can be explained is not poetry.

~ W.b. Yeats

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

~ W.h. Auden

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.

~ John Keats

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...

~ George Eliot

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

~ Alfred Tennyson

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

~ W.h. Auden

What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

~ Judith Minty

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

~ Emily Dickinson

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

~ Emily Dickinson

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

~ Sherman Alexie

The days aren't discarded or collected, they are beesthat burned with sweetness or maddenedthe sting: the struggle continues,the journeys go and come between honey and pain.No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net.They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river.Sleep doesn't divide life into halves,or action, or silence, or honor:life is like a stone, a single motion,a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves,an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metalthat climbs or descends burning in your bones.

~ Pablo Neruda

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

~ Walt Whitman

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.

~ Kahlil Gibran

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

~ Kahlil Gibran

We ran as if to meet the moon.

~ Robert Frost

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

~ William Shakespeare

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

~ Emily Dickinson

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

~ Anna Akhmatova

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

~ George Eliot

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

~ Maya Angelou

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool, it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

~ Mary Oliver

If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

~ Andrew Motion

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.

~ W.b. Yeats

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

~ William Shakespeare

in a worldfull oftemporary thingsyou area perpetual feeling.

~ Sanober Khan