#poetry

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #life

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #poetry #share #life

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#memories #poetry #sadness #life

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#poetry #struggle #life

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #villain #life

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 Khayyám

#life #persian-poetry #poetry #life

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours ↗

— James Jones

#life