“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”
— Anne Sexton“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
— Seamus Heaney“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
— William Shakespeare“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
— Charles Baudelaire“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
— Dylan Thomas“I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart”
— Marc Wambolt“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.”
— robert m drake“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”
— robert m drake“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”
— robert m drake“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”
— robert m drake“If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”
— robert m drake“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”
— robert m drake“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”
— robert m drake“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
— Charlotte Bronte“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
— Virginia Woolf“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”
— Santosh Kalwar“some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.”
— Charles Bukowski“Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,Robin’s lost in play,But the kiss in Colin’s eyesHaunts me night and day.”
— Sara Teasdale“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
— William Shakespeare“What were you before you met me?I think I was drowningAnd what are you now?Water”
— Ocean Vuong“And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.”
— Raymond Carver“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
— E.E. Cummings“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”
— Atticus Poetry“I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
— Atticus Poetry“I think it’s beautifulthe way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.”
— Atticus Poetry“regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.”
— Charles Bukowski“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
— Jess C Scott“I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
— Nick Hornby“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
— Pablo Neruda“There is nothing prettier in thewhole wide world than a girlin lovewith every breath she takes.”
— Atticus Poetry“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”
— Atticus Poetry“having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.”
— Charles Bukowski“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
— Ovid“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
— E. E. Cummings“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
— Gustave Flaubert“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
— Leonard Cohen“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”
— Omar Khayyam“Don't Worry Be Happy”
— Meher Baba“the worst thing, he told me,is bitterness, people end up sobitter.”
— Charles Bukowski“She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke“there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.”
— Charles Bukowski“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
— Paul Valery“This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.”
— Omar Khayyám“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.”
— Santosh Kalwar“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
— Robert Frost“Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”
— Morrissey“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
— Robert Frost