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I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT![]()
Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?
Where does the rainbow end...
PABLO NERUDA You're Gideon's friend."
I laughed. Gideon's friend, of course. "Only because his mother pays m...
BETHANY FRENETTE![]()
Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lo...
MARY OLIVER![]()
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA![]()
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL![]()
Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH![]()
Wanderess, Wanderess,
weave us a story of seduction and ruse.
Heroic be the Wanderess, <...
ROMAN PAYNE The shorter story;
No love, no glory;
No hero in her skies.
DAMIEN RICE![]()
On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY RAIN
Thunder skies
dewdrops fall,
timeless motion.
Heavy drizzles, TARA ESTACAAN He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over e...
TANZY SAYADI![]()
Sauve qui peut. To survive
we’d all turn thief
and rascal, or so says the fox,
MARGARET ATWOOD![]()
Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds—
it wa...
LANG LEAV![]()
Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,
let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body,...
ROMAN PAYNE Her moral obligation
to keep our hearts entwined.
Her preeminent love,
smelling like ...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO Her eyes scanned the dark skies. "Did it rain? Why are you all wet?"
"A nighttime bath."
"...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN Each second neared our last.
We danced.
“Kieren . . .”
“Shhh . . .”
We d...
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH The white saucer like some full moon descends
At last from the clouds of the table above;
...
HAROLD MONRO Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER![]()
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No ti...
W.H. DAVIES![]()
CALL YOURSELF
Look deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM![]()
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,...
EDWARD LEAR over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE ![]()
DESDEMONA
Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
IAGO
I am about it; but indeed my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI![]()
Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON The doctors named the tests and
RONNIE SELLERS ![]()
Black for hunting through the night
For death and mourning the color's white
G...
CASSANDRA CLARE When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,<...
GüNTER GRASS![]()
Red like blood
White like bone
Red like solitude
White like silence
Red like the...
TITE KUBO People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT
Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?
Where does the rainbow end...
PABLO NERUDA You're Gideon's friend."
I laughed. Gideon's friend, of course. "Only because his mother pays m...
BETHANY FRENETTE
PrayingIt doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lo...
MARY OLIVER
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL
Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH
Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse.
Heroic be the Wanderess, <...
ROMAN PAYNE The shorter story;
No love, no glory;
No hero in her skies.
DAMIEN RICE
On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY RAIN
Thunder skies
dewdrops fall,
timeless motion.
Heavy drizzles,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over e...
TANZY SAYADI
Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thief
and rascal, or so says the fox,
MARGARET ATWOOD
Before I fellin love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds—
it wa...
LANG LEAV
Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body,...
ROMAN PAYNE Her moral obligation
to keep our hearts entwined.
Her preeminent love,
smelling like ...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO Her eyes scanned the dark skies. "Did it rain? Why are you all wet?"
"A nighttime bath."
"...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN Each second neared our last.
We danced.
“Kieren . . .”
“Shhh . . .”
We d...
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH The white saucer like some full moon descends
At last from the clouds of the table above;
...
HAROLD MONRO Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No ti...
W.H. DAVIES
CALL YOURSELFLook deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,...
EDWARD LEAR over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink
DESDEMONACome, how wouldst thou praise me?
IAGO
I am about it; but indeed my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You see herand ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON The doctors named the tests and
Black for hunting through the nightFor death and mourning the color's white
G...
CASSANDRA CLARE When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,<...
GüNTER GRASS
Red like bloodWhite like bone
Red like solitude
White like silence
Red like the...
TITE KUBO People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
