Quotes by Poets - Page 141

born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to
Ikkyu
My thatched hut; the whole sky Is its roof The mountains are its hedge, And it has the sea for a garden. I’m inside with nothing at all, Not even a bag, And yet there are visitors who say “It’s hidden behind a bamboo door” — tMuso Soseki
Musō Soseki
tahiya hote pavan nahin pani, tahiya srishti kown utpati;tahiya hote kali nahin phula, tahiya hote garbh nahi mula;tahiya hote vidya nahin Veda, tahiya hote shabd nahin swada;tahiya hote pind nahin basu,nahin dhar dharni na pavan akasu;tahiya hote guru nahin chela, gamya agamya na panth duhela.Sakhi: avigati ki gati ka kahown, jake gawn na thawngun bihuna pekhana, ka kahi lijai nawnIn that state there is no air or water, and no creation or creator; There is no bud or flower, and no fetus or semen; There is no education or Vedas, and no word or taste; There is no body or settlement, and no earth, air or space; There is no guru or disciple, and no easy or difficult path.Sakhi: That state is very strange. I cannot explain it. It has no village or resting place. That state is without gunas (qualities). What name can on give it?
Kabir
A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of sunset gleam on it,lighting up its ripples, making itone with those who travelthe roads; I turn and facethe moon; sing it a song, thenlisten to the sound of the windamongst the pines.
Li Bai
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.
Dōgen
Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.
Dōgen
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.
Dōgen
Good is not always good.
Dejan Stojanovic
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.
Jonathan Burkett
If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you.
Jonathan Burkett
Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
Jack Kerouac
Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.
Michelle Tea
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.
Jay Woodman
The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.
T.S Eliot
It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,And give you to the gods.
William Shakespeare
We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.
Munia Khan
I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.
Margaret Atwood
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet’s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King’s evil; and Queen Anne when a child...
Robert Graves
Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.
Margaret Atwood
For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.
Robert Penn Warren
When they were being blessed, there was no limit-now I am blessing others- I am giving too much!!
Charmaine J.Forde
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,  One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
Robert Browning
I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.
Steven Herrick
I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.
Anthony Liccione
That's your response to everything: drink?""No, that's my response to nothing.
Charles Bukowski
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.
Jack Gilbert
I have beenhanging hereheadlessfor so longthat the body has forgottenwhyor where or when ithappenedand the toeswalk along in shoesthat do notcareand althoughthe fingersslice things andhold things andmove things andtouchthingssuch asorangesapplesonionsbooksbodiesI am no longerreasonably surewhat these thingsarethey are mostlylikelamplight andfogthen often the hands willgo to thelost headand hold the headlike the hands of achildaround a balla blockair and wood -no teethno thinking partand when a windowblows opento achurchhillwomandogor something singingthe fingers of the handare senseless to vibrationbecause they have noearssenseless to color becausethey have noeyessenseless to smellwithout a nosethey country goes by asnonsensethe continentsthe daylights and eveningsshineon my dirtyfingernailsand in some mirrormy facea block to vanishscuffed part of a child’sballwhile everywheremovesworms and aircraftfires on the landtall violets in sanctitymy hands let go let golet go
Charles Bukowski
You can lose your way anywhere.
Christine Heppermann
If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
T.S Eliot
My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks.
Sherman Alexie
September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself. She could not quite have put it into words, but she felt profoundly, at the bottom of her new, shining heart, that she could find lost things. She could make them un-lost if she were brave enough. After all, if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore.
Catherynne M. Valente
You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.
Michelle Tea
I hate tears,it makes it easy to forget someone.
sandeep kumar mishra
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius
I miss that jellied coconut and thatinvigorating coconut water,Oh, how I miss my sweet Barbados,"Yes, this is your lost daughter
Charmaine J.Forde
These are the ruinsI mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.
Traci Brimhall
The quiet sense of something lost
Alfred Tennyson
I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break
Stanley Victor Paskavich
When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real
Stanley Victor Paskavich
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
Sherman Alexie
Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
Stanley Victor Paskavich
If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Genius by birth, Bipolar by design
Stanley Victor Paskavich
The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor...I am one with myself.I AM FREE!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste
Stanley Victor Paskavich
When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line
Stanley Victor Paskavich
YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE
Clementine von Radics
When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many who saw the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia: their eyes objectively see, but they are not aware of it and are blind because they believe they can’t see. One specialist told me that among modern Western people, ’metaphorical’ symptoms such as Fredy or those Cambodians evince are much rarer now than earlier in the twentieth century or before. Nowadays most people are better equipped by education to verbalise their neuroses, and have lots of jargon in which to do so. For most of the dissociative dimension, I could draw on things I knew from within myself.
Les Murray