Quotes by Poets - Page 138

Love is an eternal shining star.
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love gives you one more heart to beat for you.
Sutputra Radheye
What we are, we see the reflection in others.
Avijeet Das
Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.
Avijeet Das
I want to read you every night. I want to take you to bed with me : your words, your thoughts, your mind, your body and your soul.
Avijeet Das
When you look at the beautiful sunset, you feel as if you are falling in love. Maybe all over again.
Avijeet Das
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.
Haki R. Madhubuti
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
Isabel Huggan
I still love the sound of breaking,the tearing of the page
Dean Young
A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.
Stephanie Lennox
The highest kind of writing—which must not be confused withthe most ambitious kind…belongs to the realm of grace. Talent ispart of it, certainly; a thorough understanding of the secret laws,absolutely. But finding the subject and theme which is in perfectharmony with your deepest nature, your forgotten selves, your hiddendreams, and the full unresonated essence of your life—now thatcannot be reached through searching, nor can it be stumbled uponthrough ambition. That sort of serendipity comes upon you on alucky day. It may emerge even out of misfortune or defeat. You mayhappen upon it without realising that this is the work throughwhich your whole life will sing. We should always be ready. Weshould always be humble. Creativity should always be a form ofprayer.
Ben Okri
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.
Roman Payne
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
Jorge Luis Borges
But very little of it can do morethan start you on your way to the real, unimaginablydifficult goal of writing memorably. That work is doneslowly and in solitude, and it is as improbable as carryingwater in a sieve.
Mary Oliver
Athletes take care of their bodies. Writers must similarly take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. There is nourishment in books, other art, history, philosophies—in holiness and in mirth. It is in honest hands-on labor also; I don't mean to indicatea preference for the scholarly life. And it is in the green world—among people, and animals, and trees for that matter, if one genuinely cares about trees.
Mary Oliver
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore
Rainer Maria Rilke
Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.
Wayne Koestenbaum
The Four Stages of Writer’s BlockW.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can’t.W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can’t. W.B. Stage I: I don’t want to write but I have to.W.B. Stage I: I don’t have time for writing … and, honestly, I don’t feel like writing.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
And how long would the life in me stay alive if it did not find new roots?I behaved like a starving man who knows there is foot somewhere if he can only find it. I did not reason anything out. I did not reason that part of the food I needed was to become a member of a community richer and more various, humanly speaking, than the academic world of Cambridge could provide: the hunger of the novelist. I did not reason that part of the nourishment I craved was all the natural world can give - a garden, woods, fields, brooks, birds: the hunger of the poet. I did not reason that the time had come when I needed a house of my own, a nest of my own making: the hunger of the woman.
May Sarton
And how long would the life in me stay alive if it did not find new roots?I behaved like a starving man who knows there is food somewhere if he can only find it. I did not reason anything out. I did not reason that part of the food I needed was to become a member of a community richer and more various, humanly speaking, than the academic world of Cambridge could provide: the hunger of the novelist. I did not reason that part of the nourishment I craved was all the natural world can give - a garden, woods, fields, brooks, birds: the hunger of the poet. I did not reason that the time had come when I needed a house of my own, a nest of my own making: the hunger of the woman.
May Sarton
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; however it takes experience to grow an imagination.
Roman Payne
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you ingest in that day. (Note: this rule does not apply to poets who write in the short-form. You, my boys and girls, are free as birds!)
Roman Payne
To work, her dumb lunge says,is to move a certain mass...through a certain distance,is to pull your weight and feelexact and equal to it.Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.
Seamus Heaney
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.
Thomas Moore
Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.
Anthony Liccione
Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
Thomas Hardy
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.
Anthony Liccione
If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.
Santosh Kalwar
Success lies in absorbing negative feedback and making the best use of it.
Osama Sarwar
To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.
Kei Miller
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
William Shakespeare
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
D.H. Lawrence
Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.
Enid Shomer
An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you've taken to get to this point, the experiences and sights and music listened to, the shit scrolled down on paper. An empty bottle may hold more promise than a full one in that regard...
Dave Matthes
Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there
Benny Bellamacina
Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.
Dave Matthes
Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
Dave Matthes
So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...
Dave Matthes
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Giovanni Boccaccio
If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.
Benny Bellamacina
Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.
Herman Melville
By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.
William Shakespeare
As I finished my rice, I sketched out the plot of a pornographic adventure film called The Massage Room. Sirien, a young girl from northern Thailand, falls hopelessly in love with Bob, an American student who winds up in the massage parlor by accident, dragged there by his buddies after a fatefully boozy evening. Bob doesn't touch her, he's happy just to look at her with his lovely, pale-blue eyes and tell her about his hometown - in North Carolina, or somewhere like that. They see each other several more times, whenever Sirien isn't working, but, sadly, Bob must leave to finish his senior year at Yale. Ellipsis. Sirien waits expectantly while continuing to satisfy the needs of her numerous clients. Though pure at heart, she fervently jerks off and sucks paunchy, mustached Frenchmen (supporting role for Gerard Jugnot), corpulent, bald Germans (supporting role for some German actor). Finally, Bob returns and tries to free her from her hell - but the Chinese mafia doesn't see things in quite the same light. Bob persuades the American ambassador and the president of some humanitarian organization opposed to the exploitation of young girls to intervene (supporting role for Jane Fonda). What with the Chinese mafia (hint at the Triads) and the collusion of Thai generals (political angle, appeal to democratic values), there would be a lot of fight scenes and chase sequences through the streets of Bangkok. At the end of the day, Bob carries her off. But in the penultimate scene, Sirien gives, for the first time, an honest account of the extent of her sexual experience. All the cocks she has sucked as a humble massage parlor employee, she has sucked in the anticipation, in the hope of sucking Bob's cock, into which all the others were subsumed - well, I'd have to work on the dialogue. Cross fade between the two rivers (the Chao Phraya, the Delaware). Closing credits. For the European market, I already had line in mind, along the lines of "If you liked The Music Room, you'll love The Massage Room.
Michel Houellebecq
I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I know, darling. Your body speaks to me in ways your mouth would never agree to confessing.
Sai Marie Johnson
I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned
Alfred Tennyson
I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare
The best way to move forward is to stop
Benny Bellamacina
In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love
Benny Bellamacina
My philosophical heart will not judge thee
Benny Bellamacina
In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need
Benny Bellamacina
Always recycle wasted time
Benny Bellamacina
Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god
Benny Bellamacina
If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?
Xi Chuan
If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place
Benny Bellamacina