Quotes by Poets - Page 137

I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
All things are like spring dreams, passing with no trace.
Su Tung-po
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
It is always wonderful to see how beautiful other people's hearts can be.
Gift Gugu Mona
He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking
Jack Kerouac
Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive.
Vivian Amis
Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.
Audre Lorde
Energy is the currency of the universe. When you 'pay' attention to something, you buy that experience.
Emily Maroutian
you can tell when people are truly happy.their energy is genuine.
Alexandra Elle
Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flame is there, it can either give warmth, die out or burn your world to ashes. Even kill you. It’s how you sustain the flame, feed it, and moderate the amount of energy in balance.
Anthony Liccione
Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don’t really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaningful instead.
Jay Woodman
Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science. Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.
Suzy Kassem
When you feel negative energy coming your way,DOA-Dismiss On Arrival
Charmaine J.Forde
You will meet many people who try to harm you, pull you down or back stab you. Don’t worry! They can’t really succeed unless you allow them to. Fill your aura with so much love and energy that that it will disallow any efforts to harm you!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?
Mīrābāī
Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.
Suzy Kassem
I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived.
Margaret Atwood
Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.
Lang Leav
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki Giovanni
I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.
John Heath-Stubbs
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
Santosh Kalwar
LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter,a shade thrown over his face.What a waste, I thought.What relief.
Jameson Fitzpatrick
What are men? Children who doubt.
Derek Walcott
Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.
John Donne
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Herman Melville
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
Christian Wiman
What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.
Christian Wiman
If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.
Franz Wright
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, full of unknowns, asking questions but raising possibilities.
Florian Armas
I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.
Regina O'Melveny
[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
Joseph Brodsky
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.
Mary Karr
Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.
Anthony Liccione
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love
William Shakespeare
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase,And marvel men should quit their easy chair,The toilsome way, and long, long leagues to trace,Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air,And life that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
George Gordon Byron
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S Eliot
He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.
Roger Zelazny
God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!
Robert Browning
I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.
René Crevel
... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.
Roberto Bolaño
You don't buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch. Don't you suppose that a hungry head,Like an empty stomach, ought to be fed?Looking into myself, I find this true, So I hardly can figure it false in you.
Edmund Vance Cooke
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORTTo make a long story shortI leave all my possessionsto the Municipal Slaughterhouseto the Special Unit of the Police Departmentto Lucky Dog LottoSo now if you want you can shoot
Nicanor Parra
Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last.
Alexander Pope
Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live
Mark Leidner
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
Roger Zelazny
Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
Roger Zelazny
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,a medley of extemporanea,And love is a thing that can never go wrong,and I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker
The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
William Shakespeare
Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so wrong, we still managed to meet at the perfect moment. Almost as if by some plan which we were unaware of.
John Mark Green
My heart is your home.
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann