Quotes by Poets - Page 217

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
Anthony Liccione
I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day.The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
Theodore Roethke
Be sure that whatever you are is you.
Theodore Roethke
Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.
Theodore Roethke
Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?
Margaret Atwood
Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
Jalaluddin Rumi
the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
Kahlil Gibran
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
Hermann Hesse
For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.
Hermann Hesse
There can be no one better than yourself, so be the best version of you because no one is born to represent another.
Gift Gugu Mona
In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Walt Whitman
Speculation, movements having abandoned rational thought, echo chambers, projection, hypocrisy by little to no self-awareness, bewildering minds brainwashed and manipulative hearts manipulated - one is sure to find these à la people cock-sure in their biased and fanatical, immovable despising of persons. We would all do well to humbly re-think from time to time: 'Whom do I really hate? For what purpose?
Criss Jami
But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse
Who can say for certain that he is sincere, who can say for certain that he believes? In the midst of of our deepest emotions we are acting a comedy with ourselves; within us one self is always mocking another self. - priscilla and emily lofte
George Moore
From "Wetness and Water"How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
If you're still believing, then you're almost there!
Anthony Liccione
Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.
Anthony Liccione
Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail.  That queen is my mother.  With unwavering faith I believe in her.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.
Sherman Alexie
Never rule anything out. Even the exact opposite of what you believe.
Stephanie Lennox
With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is getting people to believe the effect of your notion, and have them believe in themselves of adapting to something new.
Anthony Liccione
Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone.
Suzy Kassem
I still believe in miracles, because being alive is a miracle on its own.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some things have to be believed in to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
Eric Gamalinda
Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.
Margaret Atwood
Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.
William Shakespeare
we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.
Nayyirah Waheed
I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.
Margaret Atwood
Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.
Hasil Paudyal
We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.
Clementine von Radics
A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.
Audre Lorde
perhaps like me she's vainly hopingand some news awaits,but the moist earth already holds himin her strong embrace...
Nikola Vaptsarov
He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.
Margaret Atwood
Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)
Richelle E. Goodrich
I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
Nikita Gill
This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.
Michael Rosen
It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.
Charles Baudelaire
I am a golem, child,’ answered Lye calmly. ‘My mistress wrote it there. She was marvelous clever and knew all kinds of secret things. One of the things she knew was how to gather up all the slips of soap the bath house patrons left behind and arrange them into a girl shape and write “truth” on her forehead and wake her up and give her a name and say to her: “Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
Catherynne M. Valente
I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.
Charles Bukowski
Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.
Munia Khan
A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.
William Shakespeare
Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…
Ranata Suzuki
People aren´t born sad.We make them that way.
Nikita Gill
It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.
Gift Gugu Mona
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.
Maurice Maeterlinck
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
Jean Toomer
And the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday garb, and on his gondola sat Angela, happy, and blushing at her happiness. Then he and she entered the house in which I dwelt, and came into my room (and it was strange indeed, after so many years of inversion, to see her with her head above her feet!), and then she wished me happiness and a speedy restoration to good health (which could never be); and I in broken words and with tears in my eyes, gave her the little silver crucifix that had stood by my bed or my table for so many years. And Angela took it reverently, and crossed herself, and kissed it, and so departed with her delighted husband.And as I heard the song of the gondoliers as they went their way--the song dying away in the distance as the shadows of the sundown closed around me--I felt that they were singing the requiem of the only love that had ever entered my heart.
W.S. Gilbert
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
Mattie J.T. Stepanek
It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell.
William Shakespeare
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister
Helen Dunmore
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
Virgil
Had I known but yesterday what I know today,I’d have taken out your two gray eyesAnd put in eyes of clay;And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my ownI’d have taken out your heart of fleshAnd put in one of stone
Tam Lin Neville
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.
Denis Johnson
Not aware of any boundaries or any rules or any traditions abiding upon them, the water flows free and wild. Not bothered about anything gone or left behind she eagerly rushes to the new dimension of her life knowing the best is yet to come.Learn to be like that soul clean, compassionate, loving and strong enough to endure.
Harshada Pathare