To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Related To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the las... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour up... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour up... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MACBETH Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Tim... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smil... ROBERT HERRICK I will go tell him of Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into... OMAR KHAYYáM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing throug... MARY OLIVER The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, c... JOHN DRYDEN I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessim... OSCAR WILDE HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we SUZY KASSEM This is the way of it, sad earth over, The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover, And ... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The day I became a writer it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex in exchange for one of ... DAVE MATTHES Do you remember how the sun, set On the occasion, we last conversed? First, it hid b... ZUBAIR AHSAN Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when... MARY OLIVER The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? We... JOHN DONNE Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; a... ALFRED TENNYSON Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ON THE DAY I DIE On the day I die, when I'm being carried toward the grave, don't we... RUMI It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen All dressed in white Going to the churc... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful... GEORGE ORWELL Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every ... HERMANN HESSE An angel for some, a demon for some, for me, it’s heart of the one. Never want to h... ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in ... ROMAN PAYNE The Awakening I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told th... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Pretty Song" From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return.... MARY OLIVER A mighty monarch in the days of old Made offer of high honour, wealth and gold, To one who sho... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and r... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Good-morrow to thee; welcome: Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: To business... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Girl Without Hands Walking through the ruins on your way to work that do not lo... MARGARET ATWOOD We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Nig... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Leisure What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and star... W.H. DAVIES The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands And wrote my will across the ... T.E. LAWRENCE From birth to death and further on As we were born and introduced into this world, W... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE As for life, I'm humbled, I'm without words sufficient to say how it has b... MARY OLIVER Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for... ALBERTO CAEIRO Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I wen... MARY OLIVER "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing ... ROMAN PAYNE He is deaf, and keen to accept, any economical operation, that will correct his situation.... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER ...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland... CLINT CATALYST Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Brid... JIM BUTCHER How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; Ho... A.E. HOUSMAN I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai. On my shoulders I support the sky. Trust me to kno... ROBERT JORDAN Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A tired man lay down his head in a dusty room so dim, and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE A Pause of Thought I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope defer... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (Divorce) We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown, Like royalty who’ve earned the th... CRYSTAL WOODS Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious v... EDGAR ALLAN POE The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes.... MARY OLIVER Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in lov... ZUBAIR AHSAN On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be... RUMI It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in t... WALLACE STEVENS Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like... JOHN GREEN Glossa Time goes by, time comes along, All is old and all is new; What is righ... MIHAI EMINESCU How clear she shines ! How quietly I lie beneath her guardian light; While heaven and ear... EMILY BRONTë SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] HORACE Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The search began 10 years ago To find a nasty viscous foe They searched in caves and under... PAPA G. The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice; When will you free yourself from cowardice?<... FARID UD-DIN ATTAR I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to t... W.B. YEATS This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few... NENIA CAMPBELL Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the cl... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highw... WARSAN SHIRE SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain an... W.H. AUDEN When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all WALT WHITMAN WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM I feel in every girl there is a spirit, a wild pixie, that if let go, would run and d... ATTICUS Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A dragon grows in leaps and bounds, Like troubles mounting by the pound. Its stature... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its ... MARY OLIVER So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once ... ALFRED TENNYSON To be the other woman is to be a season that is always about to end, when the air is ... LINDA PASTAN
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And the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
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And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
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(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
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Often have you heard that told;
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... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
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Thou bear'st thy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
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It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE