Poet Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

we're all golden sunflowers inside.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.

Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone.

Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.

Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.

My wish for you is that you continue.

Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.

She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.