You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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