We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.
Maya Angelou
Related I write poetry, worry, smile, laugh sleep continue for a while just like most of... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a <... KAMAND KOJOURI In this space, We do raw We do loud hearts & truthful art We do ... BRYONIE WISE when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness u... MAYA ANGELOU The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef... ROBERT FROST There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our hea... GERALD G. MAY This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands<... ANTHONY KIEDIS And no matter what closet we were thrown in, up what river we were sold for an emb... KRISTEN HENDERSON In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all... MAYA ANGELOU and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again CHARLES BUKOWSKI Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Are we like two stars in a constellation Seeming so close And making so much sense Ye... JUSTIN WETCH there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are rats We're quicker than cats And we're twice as clever Don't need shoes ... JAMES FRANCIS WILKINS who did I think we were. who did I think I could make you. this is the oldest m... MARTY MCCONNELL EMILY KAGAN TRENCHARD Oh draw at my heart, love, Draw till I'm gone, That, fallen asleep, I Still may love ... NOVALIS T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sou... ALFRED TENNYSON Toys tossed on the floor Hand prints on the wall Slamming of the door And footsteps down t... GLORIA BABB You see her and ascend into love. You become enchanted, a found madman. In yo... KAMAND KOJOURI FORKED BRANCHES We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the... SUZY KASSEM We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-tree... CAROLINE NORTON there are some poems that we leave behind some that leave us behind while some ... SANOBER KHAN Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where th... FRANCIS OF ASSISI I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up... JOHN MCDERMOTT We had to react immediately because in December we were beginning to lose customers who we... RICHARD BLISS So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall b... WILLIAM EMPSON We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in or... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil... TOM HARKIN there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him ou... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In ... ANNE BRADSTREET If I be the first of us to die, Let grief not blacken long your sky. Be bold yet modest in you... NICHOLAS EVANS Nachkland - Roland Leighton Down the long white road we walked together Down between... ROLAND LEIGHTON We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same... SUZY KASSEM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES How we stop the black panthers? Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer You hear that? What Gi... KANYE WEST The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden<... ALLEN GINSBERG I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass be... KANSAS (BAND) O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where the... SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world o... LOIS LOWRY In the mirror we see a stranger, Not the person we were born to be, For we are all pretend... ANTHONY T. HINCKS When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in t... D.H. LAWRENCE This two quotes make me laugh "Andre Linoge: Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, COME ON I... DEYTH BANGER In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is th... JORDAN B. PETERSON We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is go... ANNA AKHMATOVA (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days ALFRED TENNYSON American Wedding In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belon... ESSEX HEMPHILL When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, li... MAYA ANGELOU A mother's love is like an island In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE Sonnet I If thee must say that I am not who I am, That I am not real or true,<... SHANNON L. ALDER We met at a cross-roads in life, But we were going different directions. We were part of e... MARGO T. ROSE Why We Tell Stories I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days ... LISEL MUELLER Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants a... E.E. CUMMINGS Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a... ARTHUR C. CLARKE In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone;... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI It's Halloween, The night we all play, Trick or treat, We won't go away. Be we g... ANTHONY T.HINCKS We are all in the same boat, boat of life. Does not seem to be a rudder with oarsman. ROBERT TRABOLD On Generosity On our own, we conclude: there is not enough to go around w... WALTER BRUEGGEMANN We were The Hottentot Venus Draped in our mothers' dresses, Wearing rouge & lipstick,<... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say... CHARLES BUKOWSKI On Hallows Eve, we witches meet to broil and bubble tasty treats like goblin thumbs with v... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we l... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desi... T.S. ELIOT What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN In the game of life; Sometimes we win, Sometimes we loss, Either ways, we should alwa... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. A.A. MILNE LONG LIVE...This country is but a wish of the spirit, a counter-sepulcher. <... RENé CHAR . . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones... LISEL MUELLER The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني Let us love like the spark Between flint and stone In reckless abandonment, Promising... JUSTIN WETCH The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my hear... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You know I wanna stay with you, right? I mean forever... we agree on that, right? Are you... ARNE BELLSTORF Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state wer... JOSEPH HELLER From birth to death and further on As we were born and introduced into this world, W... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to be born, ANONYMOUS We dream our lives. But the rivers breathe flint and spark and, each night, we believe in ... RENEE ASHLEY 8 Shortest stories, with beautiful meanings ! (1) Those who had coins, enjoyed in t... DR. KARAN M PAI The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, W... LOUIS MACNEICE I open my eyes. I want to know: what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in t... KAMAND KOJOURI The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? We... JOHN DONNE When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on t... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Nostalgia" How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school ... SANHITA BARUAH We are strengthening by different experiences in life; Sad times, happy moments. Poverty, ... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I never named anything I've written before no reason to since it would all have the s... ALLY CONDIE Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in ... C.S. LEWIS Gloomy room immersed in a scent of modern cowards filled with shapeless creature... ASPER BLURRY Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and... LANGDON SMITH I was born in debian, school in ubuntu, worked with some distro, and finally on slack... CREATORBE and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything... KIRSTEN SMITH Ephemera Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow un... W.B. YEATS
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MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip... MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I... MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -... MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ... MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is... MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time. MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ... MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T... MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ... MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ... MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can... MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo... MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'... MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and... MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi... MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can... MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y... MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived... MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki... MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai... MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. MAYA ANGELOU