#poetry

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-quotes #love #mysticism #passion #poetry

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#knowledge #life #poetry #experience

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs ↗

— William Cowper

#poetry #strength #faith

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. ↗

— John Keats

#love #poetry #faith

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #poetry #reason #serenity #faith

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#believe #believing #doubt #faith #poem

the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die of grief, for I know that this boy grew into a man who was a faithful friend who died. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#memory #poetry #faith

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #faith #literature

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#desperation #drowning #poetry #suicide #death