Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JAGG]

Conceal a flaw and the world will imagine the worst.- Martial

There is hardly any grief that an hour of reading won't dissipate. Montesquieu

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.- Blaise Pascal

[Kätzchen]

[FeminineAllure]

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison

[Spirit Dancer]

That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back.
If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
~ George Foreman

[Katniss]

young girl
with her south china sea
eyes
where an ocean wind
sighs
stands as she tries.

in the silence
between day and night
between hope and dreaming,
water is carved
deep
in where a poet grows
in where a child to woman
perceives.

a young girl dares
to paint
her colors true
to dance
her words free.

when only a poet believes
a young girl bleeds
her south china sea eyes
open
standing
where only a poet
dares to see.


Katniss~~

[Ms. Meander]

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
Pema Chodron

[stargazingboi]

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
my rough peasant's body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.

I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,
and night swamped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.

But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!
Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!

Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows
and the weariness follows, and the infinite ache.

[Fatale]

Many a good friend will help you move. Truly good friends help you move the bodies.

Me~

[Kätzchen]

THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE

*-*-* W. B. Yeats *-*-*

The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?

[Talon]

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty that our eyes could never see.

G. Russell

[Nomad]

'freedom is what you do with what's been done to you' - unknown

[JAGG]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religous conviction.- Blaise Pascal

Well done is better than well said.- Ben Franklin

A ship in a harbor is safe. But that is not what ships are built for.- John A Shedd

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Spirit Dancer

That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back.
If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
~ George Foreman

Float like a butterfly;
Sting like a bee.

Cassius Clay ~>> Muhammed Ali

[Kätzchen]

"Love the ones you love and serve them well..."

-- Ray LaMontagne (Crazy Dreamers)

[sara-bera]

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein

[sara-bera]

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

[grenade]

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

[grenade]

Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda


I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

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 don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I nor you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I sleep it is your eyes that close.

[Hollylane]

The character Don Baker sings:

"I knew the day you met me, I could love you if you'd let me, Though you touched my cheek and said how easy you'd forget me. You said: butterflies are free, and so are we. "

[Trey339]

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius~