Tag: poetry
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via en.wikiquote.org “We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being. There is a…
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via en.wikiquote.org “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent…
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via en.wikiquote.org To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – Line 1, Auguries of Innocence Auguries of Innocence at Wikisource Via William Blake Wikiquote
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via en.wikiquote.org “If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”– From “To…
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via en.wikiquote.org “It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear. This world is but canvas to our imaginations. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” From A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers (1849) Wednesday Via Henry David Thoreau Wikiquote
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via en.wikiquote.org “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
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via en.wikiquote.org “The branch might seem like the fruit’s origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.” Fragrance of the Unseen “If you catch a fragrance of the unseen, like that, you will not be able to be contained. You will be out in empty sky. Any…
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via en.wikiquote.org “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” A Brave and Startling Truth Written for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations “We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love…
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via antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov “Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.” – Novalis, Blüthenstaub (1798), Fragment No.…
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As I walk through This wicked world Searchin’ for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There’s one thing I wanna know: What’s so funny ’bout peace love…
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via en.wikiquote.org “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them – words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more…
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via en.wikiquote.org “What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance…
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via en.wikiquote.org “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.” – Rumi “On Gambling” Ch. 18 The Three Fish, p. 193; The Essential Rumi (1995) translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson via Rumi Wikiquote