#try

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. ↗

— Euripides

#poetry #life

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter. ↗

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

#poetry #writing #life

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#layover #life #living #poetry #life

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#poetry #tragedy #life

(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3 am with half the town on fire) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter and even your next tear may never come ↗

— Baharak Sedigh

#love #persian-poetry #poetry #life

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#poetry #life

Praise I cannot say it with mere words Convincingly So I sing it with the life I live Unflinchingly ↗

— Linford Detweiler

#life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed. ↗

— Robert Wells

#pillar #poetry #travel #treasure #value