Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’
The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.
There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then
Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death
Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.
God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.
I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.
In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.
People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.
If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.