Poetry Quotes - Page 20

If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
-from The Light, That Never Dies

Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you

Love life, Live Love

Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.

love as a passion - it is our European specialty - must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”
-from Past Present and Future are One

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.