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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither 34523 likes Like Pablo Neruda I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 25429 likes Like Pablo Neruda I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 8843 likes Like Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost tags: choice, poetry 8347 likes Like Robert Frost We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost tags: love, poetry 8335 likes Like Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent Victor Hugo tags: literature, music, poetry 8097 likes Like E.E. Cummings I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)

I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart) E.E. Cummings tags: love, poetry 7280 likes Like Kahlil Gibran You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet tags: philosophy, poetry 6236 likes Like Plato Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato tags: love, poetry, song 6044 likes Like Cassandra Clare Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading 5109 likes Like Chad Sugg If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom 4438 likes Like Leonardo da Vinci Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Leonardo da Vinci tags: art, poetry 4067 likes Like Walt Whitman Resist much, obey little. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass tags: poetry 4066 likes Like E.E. Cummings To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings tags: poetry 3718 likes Like E.E. Cummings Unbeing dead isn't being alive. E.E. Cummings tags: death, life, poetry 3381 likes Like G.K. Chesterton Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions tags: cheese, poetry 3140 likes Like Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost tags: poetry 3084 likes Like Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver tags: poetry 2973 likes Like Pablo Neruda I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue. Pablo Neruda

tags: love, poetry 2464 likes Like Kahlil Gibran Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Kahlil Gibran tags: poetry, wisdom 2174 likes Like Walt Whitman What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. Walt Whitman tags: poetry 2129 likes Like Charles Darwin If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 180982 tags: arts, life, music, poetry 2128 likes Like Anne Sexton As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love. Anne Sexton tags: poetry 2026 likes Like J.R.R. Tolkien Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: books, poetry 2008 likes Like Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. Robert Frost tags: humor, poetry, religion 1920 likes Like Anne Sexton Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth. Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems tags: intellect, love, poetry 1848 likes Like Ian Fleming You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice tags: death, james-bond, philosophy, poetry 1766 likes Like Neil Gaiman She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here. Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders tags: inspirational, poetry 1729 likes Like T.S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot

tags: poetry 1707 likes Like Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost tags: poetry 1669 likes Like previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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