Poetry Quotes - Page 18

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Don't Worry Be Happy

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.

This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you

Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.