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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.


Aberjhani


#inspirational-quotes #modern-authors #music #paranormal #parapsychology

Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized.


James P. Blaylock


#humor #poetry #love

There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.


Dejan Stojanovic


#answers #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.


Jane Kenyon


#life #poetry #life

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.


Mary Ruefle


#poetry #youth #life

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.


Vikram Chandra


#hinduism #pleasure #poetry #sorrow #life

A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now.


Omar Khayyám


#love #paradise #poetry #love

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars - L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.


Dante Alighieri


#love #sun #love

Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.


Anne Stevenson


#poetry #suicide #survival #love

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.


Ashly Lorenzana


#pain #poetry #poetry-quotes #sadness #suffering






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