Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Ms. Meander]

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato

[Fatale]

Love gauze,
At first so gossamer,
Filmy and light, lightly filtering,
Cleanly fresh, offering romantic packing
for the wounds of a still beating heart.

Love gauzed,
At last bitumen soaked,
Clingy and dark, darkly wrapping,
Uncleanly ancient, offering mummied coverings
for the wounds of a still beating heart.

[feminality]

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Fatale]

When you hear, "It's not you, it's me." don't believe it. It's you.

~Fatale

[Talon]

Speak from the heart.
It's risky.
It's unrehearsed.
It's spontaneous.
But it's honest.

[Trey339]

All that we are is a result of all we have thought
Buddha~

[Fancy]

"This is a great irony — people who have every reason to be content seldom are. Though happiness is their aim, it seems always out of reach. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when."
-Phillip Gulley - Porch Talk

[stargazingboi]

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu

[JAGG]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.-Unknown

Where there is a will there is a way.- Unknown

An unfullfilled vocation drains the color from a persons existence. - Honore de Balzac

[grenade]

Allen Ginsberg - Song


The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human--
looks out of the heart
burning with purity--
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
--cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

--must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye--

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

[grenade]

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen. In justice to her fame. Has ever reached half high enough. To write a mother's name. ~Author Unknown

[cinnamongrrl]

Revelation

We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone really find us out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.
Robert Frost

[grenade]

How Will You Kiss?

Lilt me your lips,
our lost breath intermingling.

Synchronize our silence
as lazy hours ease by.

Waft cocoa, hazelnut, cinnamon,
scents around me.

Tremble with me
in paralyzing pauses.

I may no longer breathe
without breathing you.


- Judith Pordon



Como Besaras?


Enciendanme tus labios
Nuestros alientos perdidos entremezclandose

Sincroniza nuestro silencio
al perezoso pasar de las horas.

LLeva el aire aromas de cacao,
nuez, canela que me rodean

Tiembla conmigo
con pausas paralizantes

Quizá no pueda respirar más
sin respirarte a ti.


-Judith Pordon

-Translated by John Ramos

[grenade]

AMANTE

A waterfall of hair
cascades
down your shoulders.

Silence breathes us,
butterflies
in our hands.

Our dinners
half eaten
packed for later.

A five star meal
relished
on our warm spines.

While we languish
on rented sheets.
No bickering moments,

dismal doubts,
or monotonous chores
shudder our cloistered moments.

Eternity is not
a diamond ring.
It is here.


Grace Ezequiel

[sara-bera]

“Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

[Ms. Meander]

--- writers do not write to impart knowledge to others; rather, they write to inform themselves.
- Judith Guest

[Spirit Dancer]

If I had two loaves of bread,
I would sell one and buy hyacinths.
For they would feed my soul.

the Qur'an

[Spirit Dancer]

A loving person lives in a loving
world. A hostile person lives
in a hostile world. Everyone you
meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes, Jr.

[Kätzchen]

I wouldn't know how to live in a treeless country, and where I live now, the compass of my dreams always points north.

-- Czeslaw Milosz
(Symbolic Mountains and Forests)

[Kätzchen]

On bigotry: I spent a little bit of time researching the term bigotry: how the term bigotry is defined, how it operates, its etymology. Results of my limited research include a commonly held definition (wiki):

Bigotry is the state of mind of a bigot, defined by Merriam-Webster as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance." [1] Bigotry may be based on real or perceived characteristics, including age, disability, dissension from popular opinions, economic status, ethnicity, gender identity, languag, nationality, personal habits, political alignment, race, region, religious or spiritual belief, sex, species, or sexual orientation. Bigotry is sometimes developed into an ideology or world view (Wikipedia).

And, an illustration:

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye:
The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.