#poetry

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! ↗

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#creating #haiku #japanese #poetry #zen

Beloved,/ I am so glad,/ So very glad You have come. ↗

— حافظ

#mysticism

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

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#flowers #poetry #flowers

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. ↗