#try

This rootless shifting east and west I can't suppress a smile myself but how else can I make the whole world my home. If any of my old friends come around asking say I'm down at the river by the Second Fushimi Bridge. ↗

— Baisao

#rootlessness #home

What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#home

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#create #inspiration #poetry #prose #write

Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . . ↗

— Lesley Wheeler

#home

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#poetry #age

why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#poetry #humor

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#continue #country #danger #efforts #fight

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#poetry #sanity #humor

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#good-life #music #poetry #self-improvement #art

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#country #decisions #determination #experience #greece