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…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best. ↗


— Hesiod


#poetry #men

Neither pathway is correct. ↗


— Aazam Yaqoob


#emotonal #inspirational #poetry #inspirational

He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure. ↗


— Edward John Trelawny


#love #poetry #poets #inspirational

May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch ↗


— Barbara Botch


#life #poetry #inspirational

Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto. ↗


— Pablo Neruda


#imagination #poetry #writing #imagination

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. ↗


— Nicholas Sparks


#inspirational

Unforgiveness, splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree. Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh. ↗


— Katerina Stoykova Klemer


#poetry #poetry-quotes #spirituality #unforgiven #wisdom-inspirational

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . . ↗


— Mary O'Neill


#book #color #inspiration #mary #o-neill

Prose talks and poetry sings. ↗


— Franz Grillparzer


#prose #sings #talks

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗


— Allen Tate


#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal






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