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When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon." "And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its visage in the lake, and told it to the water 'neath the willows. The water told it to the rower's oar. "And the oar has told it to the boat, and the boat has passed the secret to the fisher. Alas! alas! if that were only all! But the fisher told the secret to a woman. "The fisher told the secret to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters, and all of Hellas now shall know the tale. ↗


— Pierre Louÿs


#lovers #poetry #songs-of-bilitis #tryst #love

One cannot make bargains for blisses Or catch them like fishes in nets And sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets. ↗


— Alice Carey


#love #poetry #life

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God. ↗


— Hafiz


#life-lessons #love #master-poet #poetry #life

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many. ↗


— Thomas Lux


#poetry #life

An empty bottle has life. ↗


— Santosh Kalwar


#life

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them. ↗


— A.S. Byatt


#craft #literature #poetry #self-confidence #skill

Când ne deschidem tu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundăm tu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdem tu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atunci eu sunt eu şi tu eşti tu. ↗


— Bernhard Schlink


#love #poetry #romanian-language #inspirational

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. ↗


— Leza Lowitz


#poetry #yoga #yoga

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone. ↗


— Rumi


#muhammad #muslim #poetry #rumi #unity

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. ↗


— Marguerite Yourcenar


#love






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