Brave Quotes
1. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
2. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
3. in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
4. “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
5. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
6. “We love the things we love for what they are.”
7. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
8. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
9. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
10. “If you’re reading this… Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.”
11. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
12. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
13. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
14. “Resist much, obey little.”
15. “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
16. “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
17. “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”
18. “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
19. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
20. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
21. “If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If you’re a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”
22. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
23. “Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
24. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
25. “Let our scars fall in love.”
26. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
27. “As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
28. “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
29. “This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
30. “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
31. “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
32. “You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face”
33. “If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.”
34. “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
35. “Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”
36. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more”
37. “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
38. “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
39. “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
40. “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
41. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
42. “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
43. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”
44. “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
45. “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”
46. “Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
47. “I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
48. “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
49. “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
50. “My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”
51. “I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”
52. “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
53. “Summer night– even the stars are whispering to each other.”
54. “Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
55. “listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go”
56. “Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
57. “Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
58. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
59. “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
60. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
