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  • #1
    “you can't become a great man without having great thoughts.”
    YOSHINO GENZABURO, How Do You Live?

  • #2
    Natalie Babbitt
    “do not fear death but rather an unlived life”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #5
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #6
    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    Galway Kinnell

  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “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.”
    Robert Frost

  • #8
    Shel Silverstein
    “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 youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #9
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #11
    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

  • #12
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    Walt Whitman
    “Peace is always beautiful.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #15
    Walt Whitman
    “O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
    Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
    Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
    Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d;
    Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
    Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
    The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

    Answer.

    That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
    That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #16
    Walt Whitman
    “I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
    Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

  • #17
    W.B. Yeats
    “What can be explained is not poetry.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #18
    Atticus Poetry
    “She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
    Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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  • #22
    Ovid
    “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
    Ovid

  • #23
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    A Psalm of Life

    Tell me not in mournful numbers,
    Life is but an empty dream!
    For the soul is dead that slumbers,
    And things are not what they seem.

    Life is real! Life is earnest!
    And the grave is not its goal;
    Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
    Was not spoken of the soul.

    Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
    Is our destined end or way;
    But to act, that each tomorrow
    Find us farther than today.

    Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
    And our hearts, though stout and brave,
    Still, like muffled drums, are beating
    Funeral marches to the grave.

    In the world's broad field of battle,
    In the bivouac of Life,
    Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
    Be a hero in the strife!

    Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
    Let the dead Past bury its dead!
    Act, - act in the living Present!
    Heart within, and God o'erhead!

    Lives of great men all remind us
    We can make our lives sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
    Footprints
    on the sand of time;

    Footprints, that perhaps another,
    Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
    Seeing, shall take heart again.

    Let us then be up and doing,
    With a heart for any fate;
    Still achieving, still pursuing,
    Learn to labor and to wait.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Voices of the Night

  • #24
    Emily Dickinson
    “A wounded dear leaps the highest”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “She lives the poetry she cannot write.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

  • #27
    Walt Whitman
    “-->

    This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
    Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson
        done,
    Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the
        themes thou lovest best,
    Night, sleep, death and the stars.


    — Walt Whitman, “A Clear Midnight,” Leaves of Grass. Originally published: July 4, 1855.



    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #28
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #29
    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #30
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    Socrates



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