#poetry

The poetry of love is the greatest gift God gave us. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

Não estatize meus sentimentos. Pra seu governo, o meu estado é independente. ↗

— Renato Russo

#love #poetry #love

...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women... ↗

— Kate Fox

#poetry #love

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars… ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#love #poetry #shakespeare #women #love

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon. ↗

— T.R. Hummer

#love

For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#love

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church... ↗

— John Geddes

#confetti #love #marriage #poetry #romance

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. ↗

— Muhammad Waseem

#computerm-marriage #human #poetry #marriage

Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny? ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#time #life

What is this life so full of care, We don't have time to stand and stare. ↗

— W.H. Davies

#life #poetry #time #w-h-davies #life