Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butchers the poets equal there
• Emile M. Cioran
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets
• Oscar Wilde
" Prove the doubters wrong by proving yourself."
• ALVIN WILLIARD A AQUINO
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you
• Virgil
My silence is nt my weakness.. I speak less not because i can't, but because i do not ought to be like others..
• Miraj Patel
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again
• Oscar Wilde
words i hear from god when i look at him...
"i wont get upset with you if you stop believing in me, but i will get very upset with you when you stop believing in yourself"
• Miraj Patel
"[...] of course we should try to make things better, insofar as it lies within our power. But we should probably not try to make things perfect, especially not ourselves, for that path leads to mass graves.
• Margaret Atwood
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing
• Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me
• Kate Capshaw
One starts an action simply because one must do something
• T. S. Eliot
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not
• Saint Augustine
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame
• Pearl S. Buck
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force
• Angela Merici
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
• Albert Einstein
you have one life to live...live it to the fullest you can...learn all you can...love to your fullest...give it all your best
• Mary Etta Metcalf
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
• Anatole France
The wisdom of the world and age apart,
The truly wise must listen to his heart.
• Ikeogu Oke
"The Way I Want To Go"
If you don’t go out in the woods
nothing will ever happen
and your life will never begin.
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Inspiration and genius - one and the same
• Victor Hugo
And yet the poet should not deny his pain,
Or fail for lack to stress his fair bargain.
For if poets do not make money,
Then, neither does money make poets.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love
• Theodor Reik
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
• Sylvia Plath
The glorious path is paved with sacrifice.
In death, the buried gift is not forgiven.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand
• David Antin
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere
• W. H. Auden
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"
• Maya Angelou
Ability:
I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
• Robert M. Hensel
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.
• SIR RAM