#poetry

When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"] ↗

— Mary Oliver

#inspirational #poem #poetry #courage

The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#life #poetry #spirit #life

A wind starts to blow, without feelings, A song falls in love, without singing, A life will begin in melodies of the strings, May you find all pleasure of the light, God bless, Warrior of Light! ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life

If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee. If you want the unseen world, you're not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love's confusing joy. ↗

— Coleman Barks Essential Rumi

#life

In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) ↗

— David N. Elkins

#the-sacred #life

Time goes by at the speed of life Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife And we just go on at the speed of life ↗

— Jude Cole

#life #music #poetry #summer-nights #time

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE ↗

— Ernesto Cardenal

#marxism #poetry #life

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life. ↗

— Comte de Lautréamont

#poetry #surreal #surrealism #life

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself. ↗

— Umberto Saba

#life

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. ↗

— Aberjhani

#charlie-parker #creativity #diamonds #genius #jazz-music