Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
When it comes to the important things one is always alone.
For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.
Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.
The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.
The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.
Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Live in the opening where there is no door to hide behind.
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.