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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
love is fear but fear is death
kruz lex
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida
To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker
From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
Gertrude Stein
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
there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
Charles Bukowski
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Starhawk
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.
Nadine C. Keels
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
Aberjhani
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Ovid
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
