And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In all the flames of fire fume’s left the trace Into the bluest sea the sky is drowned T... MUNIA KHAN Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves wher... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and ... ABERJHANI We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that... PETER CANNING A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a panther poised in a cypress tree about ... JOY HARJO Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm an... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has go... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who drea... ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Sea-fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And a... JOHN MASEFIELD Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur... DOUGLAS ADAMS And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goe... EDWIN MARKHAM Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar All recog... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed<... MATTHEW ARNOLD 101 And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Gr... OMAR KHAYYáM I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be... A.E. HOUSMAN And then you leave the memories behind. When you look at the pictures It seems like it wa... ARZUM UZUN I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something pi... SNOW PATROL There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is s... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... LORD BYRON Steven dreamed of you the very second you died (So the poem goes) and you may h... JON PAUL FIORENTINO Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered... A.E. HOUSMAN There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON We try a new drug, a new combination of drugs, and suddenly I fall into my life again JANE KENYON You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ... NEIL GAIMAN THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul... W.B. YEATS I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day I... ROBERT LOWELL Come on, insisted Zaphod, I've found a way in. In? said Arthur in horror. Into the interior of... DOUGLAS ADAMS all hopes there, so close to each other, are pulled into the void every night; when a band... MUNIA KHAN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end. The hills that split asunder an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN be the kiss in my hair that no one sees move, when i move sigh, when i sigh...<... SANOBER KHAN The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circl... JERRY SPINELLI Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning ... MARY OLIVER I Go Down To The Shore I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on... MARY OLIVER The day I became a writer it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex in exchange for one of ... DAVE MATTHES It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE And life goes on like this, an uncomplete poem. ARZUM UZUN Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When a man is in love how can he use old words? 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ROMAN PAYNE I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares... SARA TEASDALE Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the ocea... MUNIA KHAN At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th... DOUGLAS ADAMS Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is fallin... JOSé N. HARRIS You are the mark on my liquid heart where love begins with the beginning’s start You are... MUNIA KHAN Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY SEASONS OF LIFE Sometimes I fall And feel myself slowly wilt and die, But then ... SUZY KASSEM All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A pu... ROMAN PAYNE Closed eyes can't sacrifice a third time i may never know A dreamer's dream GREG C WARNER Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocen... DIANE WAKOSKI I would like to be the sea I would like to break into millions of pieces and I would like ... JANE FADE MERRICK This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its ... COLLEEN HOOVER Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed ... KAMAND KOJOURI The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the ni... WENDELL BERRY He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had t... EDWIN MARKHAM You see, even then, I knew. It wasn't a trick. It wasn't a show. Sometimes day and night reverse. So... LAUREN OLIVER Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God<... SAUL WILLIAMS ~Tonight's Sea~ Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze ... RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step... JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend, And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, W.B. YEATS The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his de... HOMER Flipping to the front, I caught Aiden's gaze and offered a sympathetic smile. "Skittles?"... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of... HERMAN MELVILLE I found an empty chair and sat on it to find myself even emptier. I found a broken gl... MUNIA KHAN I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to... RAINER MARIA RILKE They were so comfy. But not anymore. Now I just want to burn them.” “Want to burn what?” ... ZOE SUGG The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ... TERENCE MCKENNA I left smiles on your wordless lips The night roads- dismal and narrow, dream’s path rem... MUNIA KHAN My tears of joy hear the raindrops crying, as the rain never wants to pour down on my... MUNIA KHAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I forgot to sup annoyance from his glass full of mingled dread and rage Now let ... MUNIA KHAN Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where d... RACHEL COHN A pebble thrown in a pool may ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is ... CRAIG FROMAN Aegean Islands 1940-41 Where white stares, smokes or breaks, Thread white, white of ... BERNARD SPENCER Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, a... ROBERT PENN WARREN Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away ... THOMAS MERTON Sonnet LXV" Matilde, where are you? Down here I noticed, under my necktie and just a... PABLO NERUDA ...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However... DAN MILLMAN Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests; on shores of sand: and when... ROBERT SEXTON Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where the... JOHN CLARE How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him t... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN CIRCLES OF LIFE Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops... SUZY KASSEM There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A fi... COLLEEN HOOVER Demons run when a good man goes to war Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man g... STEVEN MOFFAT The Volunteer AT dawn, he said, I bid them all farewell, To go where bugles call and rifl... ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER
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ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ... ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The present is the only reality and the only certainty. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G... ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it. ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat... ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends. ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh... ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ... ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe... ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER