Stéphane Mallarmé quote: "There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul."

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex...
STEPHANE MALLARME

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA

Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the...
ANATOLE FRANCE

Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that ...
C.S. LEWIS

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON

Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th...
ERICA JONG

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by dro...
JAMES BALDWIN

We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE

You don't love a body because it's perfect. The body is perfect because you love it.
OCTAV DRUTA

In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG

There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinter...
C.S. LEWIS

And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER

I love all the fishes in the sea except selfish. But, mother is the only person in this world who gi...
NISHI DE SILVA

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i...
GERMAINE GREER

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE

Sometimes you just love a person, not because they love you, but because the love YOU have is perfec...
TAMIKA GILMORE

Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, ev...
LEO TOLSTOY

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense ...
PAULO COELHO

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage...
AMIT RAY

Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will gr...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to h...
ROBERT BURNS

The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe...
BIZ STONE

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been writt...
PAULO COELHO

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds o...
LEO TOLSTOY

If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In l...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not lov...
EMIL BRUNNER

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else,...
KAMAND KOJOURI

Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of ...
C.S. LEWIS

step by step; the language of orderliness.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, witho...
EUGENE A. NIDA

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo do...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC

There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything...
FERNANDO BOTERO

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
TOM SCHULMAN

Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is...
DELILAH

The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.

The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
WALT WHITMAN

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all ...
LEO TOLSTOY

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend...
AMIT RAY

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

The fear of God is an insane idea. God is love and “there is no fear in love, because perfect love...
DRAGOS BRATASANU

Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something,...
LEO TOLSTOY

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-...
JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN

A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable,...
PLATO

And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY

I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thin...
NICOLE LYONS

She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not importan...
HELEN HAYES

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not import...
HELEN HAYES

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expre...
THOMAS MOORE

The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional...
RAPHAEL ZERNOFF

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called lo...
MILES FRANKLIN

Stand in the sunshine of love. Bathe in the beauty that is life, that is you. Put love into everythi...
AKIROQ BROST

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ...
C. K. WILLIAMS

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