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#poetry

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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.


Rumi


#poetry #rumi #mysticism

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!


Jens Peter Jacobsen


#living #passion #poetry #dreams

I gotta say"—Apollo broke the silence—"these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "Heroes win laurels—" Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.


Rick Riordan


#hermes #percy-jackson #poetry-quotes

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name.


Sylvia Plath


#poetry-quotes

Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day.


Santosh Kalwar


#poetry-quotes #sunday #sundays #poetry-quotes

To do something very common, in my own way.


Adrienne Rich


#poetry-quotes

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #discovery #literature #literature-quotes #open

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.


William Stafford


#king #poetry #wanderer #poetry-quotes

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.


Mahmoud Darwish


#dreams

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.


Fernando Pessoa


#duality #life #poetry #thoughts #dreams






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