#try

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #life

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #poetry #share #life

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#memories #poetry #sadness #life

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

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. ↗

— George Eliot

#bigotry #harriet-beecher-stowe #jokes #stupidity #education

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#longfellow #poetry #sadness #life