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I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In starlit nights I saw you,
So cruelly you kissed me.
Your lips a magic world,
Your ...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
When we are old and these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;Four nights will quickly dream away the time...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Brother, stand the pain.Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beau...
RUMI
I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books,... CHARLES BUKOWSKI ...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In ...
ANNE BRADSTREET
Lay downYour tired & weary head my friend.
We have wept too long
Night is fallin...
JOSé N. HARRIS
You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
...
KAMAND KOJOURI
And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleepin... NORA ROBERTS Late Hours"
On summer nights the world
moves within earshot
on the interstate w...
LISEL MUELLER
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
For he would be thinking of loveTill the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moo...
W.B. YEATS
Fare well we call to hearth and hallThough wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,...
EDWARD LEAR Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;I remember all you forget.
I will die as ma...
CARL SANDBURG
Alas! must it ever be so?Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own sh...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fly Generation
We stand tall, we stand proud, we are the ‘fly’ generation
We thi...
SAAHIL PREM
Tush!Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT
With thee conversing I forget all time,All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Sw...
JOHN MILTON
the times we worked harder to make the day stand out.our story demanded that we change a...
DONALD MILLER
If you are a monster, stand up.If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve bu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; co...
BASHō MATSUO All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
BASHō MATSUO Old pond — frogs jumped in — sound of water
BASHō MATSUO Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice...
Or backyard love?
BASHō MATSUO Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice
BASHō MATSUO Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music
BASHō MATSUO April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances
BASHō MATSUO This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.
BASHō MATSUO Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.
BASHō MATSUO Ballet in the air...
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate
BASHō MATSUO Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening
BASHō MATSUO Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
BASHō MATSUO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
BASHō MATSUO The journey itself is my home.
BASHō MATSUO Suvvia, andiamo a
contemplare la neve
fino a cadervi dentro.
BASHō MATSUO When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring...
MATSUO BASHō Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.
MATSUO BASHō Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.
MATSUO BASHō Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHō For a lovely bowl
Let us arrange these flowers...
For there is no rice
MATSUO BASHō We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my...
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN
The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;- on the Fr...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our bodies knock
and we pretend like we can't hear
They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI
The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We never stop loving,
No matter what we say,
because we say just empty words,
to keep...
ANTHONY T HINCKS
At our age the imaginationacross the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,
Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart
The Cat and the Moon The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top...
W.B. YEATS
Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA
I visited many places, Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always return...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or...
JOHN MILTON Song on Applying War Paint:
At the center of the earth
I stand,
Behold me!
What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself
When...
CHARLES WRIGHT
His name is Julian Janus Marquet, but I’m going to call him Jory.”Both Chris and Pau...
V.C. ANDREWS
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking
of sitting ou...
MARY OLIVER
Drink wine and look at the moonand think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passi...
OMAR KHAYYáM
We’re mutants now?”“Don’t tell Marvel. They’ll sue us.
MICHELLE HODKIN
ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.
One family, many races.
One truth, many paths...
SUZY KASSEM
Yeah and its over before you know it, It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take for...
TOM PETTY We wear many things,
but that with greatest import
is our expression.
J. BENSON
We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.
Even when we’re sleeping...
JAY WOODMAN
Because at nightwhen others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are mel...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Andy: Look at our love fern! It's dead!
Ben: No it's only sleeping.
KATE HUDSON The Source …
Who are You
Where lay your path
Why be on your journey
...
T...
NEENA VERMA I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
At night, I open the windowand ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Another relative?" Valek asked.A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother'...
MARIA V. SNYDER I am poppies in the field
Red and cold
I am sleeping alone
and
I am light
BELLA BETINA RAIN
Thunder skies
dewdrops fall,
timeless motion.
Heavy drizzles,
Beyond the earth,beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hea...
OMAR KHAYYáM
The season was waning fastOur nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hourDraws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue,
while others prefer the shade;
As...
MICHELLE GEANEY
Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
P...
W.H. AUDEN
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
L...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
ANDREW MARVELL
Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
M...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are guarded
and full of light
at the same time,
like the moon
before she und...
PAVANA पवन
Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks...Rising, shining, and finally scattering an...
TITE KUBO
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus[never tickle a sleeping dragon]
J.K. ROWLING We’re going to find your hobo. We’re going to work hard—work nights. Liv, we’re going to put...
DEBRA ANASTASIA How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?
How many of u...
RIXA WHITE I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going...
SAMANTHA SCHUTZ We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
