#poetry

Ko hodiš, pojdi zmeraj do konca. Spomladi do rožne cvetice, poleti do zrele pšenice, jeseni do polne police, pozimi do snežne kraljice, v knjigi do zadnje vrstice, v življenju do prave resnice, v sebi do rdečice čez eno in drugo lice. A če ne prideš ne prvič, ne drugič do krova in pravega kova poskusi: vnovič in zopet in znova. ↗

— Tone Pavček

#poetry #tone-pavček #inspirational

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #spiritual #inspirational

I could give all to Time except---except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while the Customs slept I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There, And what I would not part with I have kept. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #time #friendship

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #life

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#longfellow #poetry #sadness #life

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#poetry #truth #life

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#life

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#poetry #struggle #life

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #villain #life