#poe

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#poetry #rap #rhythm #storytelling #well

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. ↗

— Rumi

#iran #rumi #rumi-poetry #inspirational

It is when things are at worst you will get the best. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#poem #romance #inspirational

Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away. ↗

— Nadine C. Keels

#inspirational #poetry #inspirational

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick. A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#inspirational #macrobiotics #poetry #taoism #inspirational

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ↗

— Socrates

#inspiration #poet #prophet #socrates #inspirational

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#poetry #power #russian-author #writing #inspirational

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #spiritual #inspirational

I could give all to Time except---except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while the Customs slept I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There, And what I would not part with I have kept. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #time #friendship

Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#poem #inspirational