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And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.


Oscar Wilde

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In my night, so brief, alas
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OGDEN NASH You can keep your paper promises
and all your worldly treasures.
But you cannot buy peace ...
RAYMOND DEAN WHITE When the sun and the moon will be identically seen together,
When the wind and the water will m...
J. SARRAF It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will unders...
SANOBER KHAN TO ALL MANKIND

Speak kind words
to mankind
and the unkind
will attack you....
SUZY KASSEM Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.
BASHō MATSUO The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the ...
RYōKAN You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS


Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The ...
SUZY KASSEM I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
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MARY OLIVER Steal not this book for fear of shame

For on it is the owners name

And when yo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to ...
PABLO NERUDA Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate.
Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.
SHANNON L. ALDER When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going g...
MALAK EL HALABI Turn to the wind, I dare you
For time is but a space that is captured
Live in fear or peac...
F.N.COLLIER No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show t...
THICH NHAT HANH Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur."
ERIN HUNTER Exactly when will you give up?

When things will seem out of your hands ?

When ...
SANHITA BARUAH I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN DON'T TELL YOUR SECRETS.
A whisper can betray you.
DON'T EVER STOP.
They will always ...
MICHELLE GAGNON She smashes her knuckles into winter
As autumn's wind fades into black
She is the saint of...
GREEN DAY I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That...
ROBERT FROST Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
ALFRED TENNYSON A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA

If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
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Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
ALAN MOORE God spreads the heavens above us like great wings
And gives a little round of deeds and days, W.B. YEATS The ocean-blue bowl won’t
refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back
from the gaping earth...
BRYANA JOY Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terro...
KATE MCGAHAN Forgive the beggar
attention is all that’s seeked
and in return I never give
this ...
ISABEL AANYA LEIGH Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by li...
PABLO NERUDA Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has go...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER I don't always understand poetry!'

'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never unders...
ALAN BENNETT You can't build a wall round a village.
The sun and the wind
will always find their way in...
IGOR GOLDKIND The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
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ROY BEAN In the hours waking,
when we're still all still,
and you can hear the floorboards creaking...
DAVE MATTHES I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; ...
T.S. ELIOT What have I become?
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And yo...
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Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no mo...
C.S. LEWIS If you give me wings
I will soar for you

Even if this whole land
Sinks down to ...
TITE KUBO XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not ...
ELLEN HOPKINS When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don't blame the lettuce. You look for re...
THICH NHAT HANH THE NAKED HEART

From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
SUZY KASSEM Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
LAUREN OLIVER I will love you like the desert burns along the sun when they are together,
and when you will b...
SANHITA BARUAH Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like ...
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all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one...
RAY BRADBURY We plough the fields and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being ki...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar.

If you can roar, roar for others.
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One side destroys
One releases
I am your Gordian knot
Will ...
P.C. CAST THE NAKED HEART


From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
P...
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The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
W...
LOUIS MACNEICE Better associations
__________________

If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."

--Nero Slyve...
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You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
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we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do...
BENJAMIN HOFF And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a s...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
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If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
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the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will...
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hoping that he will forget the smell.
He was supp...
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and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
KAMAND KOJOURI The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.

It rings to announc...
VERA NAZARIAN At the Moor

Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillne...
GEORG TRAKL When you become a raindrop in your mind
Thunder is the closest friend you may find
Wind ...
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you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
KAMAND KOJOURI there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When we understand people;
when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's a limit to the power of a spring, no matter how tightly one winds it.'
'Oh, yes. Yes. A...
TERRY PRATCHETT There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us
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JOHN GREEN Fly Generation

We stand tall, we stand proud, we are the ‘fly’ generation
We thi...
SAAHIL PREM Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything c...
RUPI KAUR So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI For all these stars,
nothing is new.
They’ve seen all kinds of wars
and miracles, t...
KAMAND KOJOURI oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be...
NIKKI ROWE There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE I understand what you mean about Will, but Will was lonely and wretched in the days when he behaved ...
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Luke 10

1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And When his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own d...
DEREK WALCOTT I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES

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OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
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OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
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OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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