Quotes by Poets - Page 100

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.
Sorin Cerin
Of how much light will my destiny’s eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?
Sorin Cerin
The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world.
Sorin Cerin
The one who did not understood that his time’s root supports his life tree was born in vain.
Sorin Cerin
We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!
Sorin Cerin
We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.
Sorin Cerin
Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.
Sorin Cerin
You'll learn wisdom for yourself, if you have become sedentary.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
True wisdom lies in the pure roots of untouchedly souls.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?
Sorin Cerin
Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.
Sorin Cerin
Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?
Sorin Cerin
Do not rummage through your thought’s drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.
Sorin Cerin
There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.
Sorin Cerin
If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.
Sorin Cerin
Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?
Sorin Cerin
No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will.
Sorin Cerin
One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.
Sorin Cerin
We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.
Sorin Cerin
I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.
Sorin Cerin
Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?
Sorin Cerin
However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.
Sorin Cerin
Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
To believe in what you don’t know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Reach high for the stars that hidden in your soul. Dream precedes the goal
Saeed Jones
Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.
Hermann Hesse
All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.
Sorin Cerin
All the roads of life end in death.
Sorin Cerin
Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.
Sorin Cerin
However much we would adore the past it will forever die in the future with us.
Sorin Cerin
Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.
Sorin Cerin
Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?
Sorin Cerin
What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?
Sorin Cerin
Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?
Sorin Cerin
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
Maya Angelou
Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye.
Barbara Kingsolver
...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head.
Chinua Achebe
Love in the DaytimeMy loverShines like the sun.I may be burnedBlack as a frying pan,Sweating bucketsAnd keeling overWith vertigo,But why worry?My loverShines like the sun.She pours over my bodyAnd breathes into my soul.It feels so goodWhen she lightsMy love on fireLike dry wood.Translated from Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo with Ghirmai Negash
Reesom Haile
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
Barbara Kingsolver
As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...
Steven Herrick
Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
When I look back at where I come from, I realize it's for a good reason that God changed my life.
Gift Gugu Mona
Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.
Sophie Hannah
We distance ourselves for protection,Wear scarves when it’s cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.
Steve Abbott
Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you.” “Okay,” I said. “It’s okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you?” “Yeah, that would be okay,” he said.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them. You've tried and they've tried, but the words just turn to ashes every time they try to leave your mouth. They start as fire in the pit of your stomach, but come out in a puff of smoke. You are not you anymore. And you don't know how to fix this. The worst part is...you don't even know how to try.
nikitta gill
I watch what happens below and Iam grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below me it happens, it happens that night bright as day, but I cannot name it, those things that happened while I watched, and I cannot speak something that was never in words, speak of things I cannot imagine, could never have seen even as I saw it, and I hide and am grateful for my smell crouched like an animal in that dark hot space
Chris Abani
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
Fernando Pessoa
She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses
Munia Khan
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well?
Thomas Moore
Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.
Santosh Kalwar
Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear
Munia Khan
I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river.
Alberto Caeiro
For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
Fernando Pessoa
The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for ANOTHER the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very centre of our personal life. This is characteristic of every kind of love, but predominantly of sexual love; it is distinguished from other kinds of love by greater intensity, by a more engrossing character, and by the possibility of a more complete overall reciprocity. Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one; only of it do the words of Holy Writ say: 'They shall be one flesh,' i.e., shall become one real being.
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov