#poetry

With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts to the silence of the storm of intoxication. Holding on to each other till the roots of our souls have become entwined in the eternal desire of each other." Poem: "The Silence of Love ↗

— Anthony F. Rando

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Ajay Naidu

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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

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

— Nadine C. Keels

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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

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

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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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

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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

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