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  • #1
    Ruskin Bond
    “How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.”
    Ruskin Bond - Delhi is not far

  • #2
    Jonathan Swift
    “As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour. At the time I am writing, it is five years since my last return to England. During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room. To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand. The first money I laid out was to buy two young stone-horses, which I keep in a good stable; and next to them, the groom is my greatest favourite, for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he contracts in the stable. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other.”
    Jonathan Swift, Guilliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

  • #3
    T.S. Eliot
    “So I find words I never thought to speak

    In streets I never thought I should revisit

    When I left my body on a distant shore.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #4
    T.S. Eliot
    “And would it have been worth it, after all,
    Would it have been worth while,
    After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
    After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor -
    And this, and so much more? -”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

  • #5
    T.S. Eliot
    “We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”
    t.s. eliot

  • #6
    T.S. Eliot
    “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
    Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
    T.S. Eliot, The Rock

  • #7
    T.S. Eliot
    “music heard so deeply
    That it is not heard at all, but
    you are the music
    While the music lasts.”
    T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “Life's as kind as you let it be.”
    Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “great writers are indecent people
    they live unfairly
    saving the best part for paper.

    good human beings save the world
    so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
    become immortal.
    if you read this after I am dead
    it means I made it.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “I want to
    let her know
    though
    that all the nights
    sleeping
    beside her

    even the useless
    arguments
    were things
    ever splendid

    and the hard
    words
    I ever feared to
    say
    can now be
    said:

    I love
    you.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #13
    “I Go Down To The Shore

    I go down to the shore in the morning
    and depending on the hour the waves
    are rolling in or moving out,
    and I say, oh, I am miserable,
    what shall—
    what should I do? And the sea says
    in its lovely voice:
    Excuse me, I have work to do.”
    Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

  • #14
    “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)”
    Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

  • #15
    Allen Ginsberg
    “The weight of the world is love.
    Under the burden of solitude,
    under the burden of dissatisfaction
    the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #16
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
    Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

  • #17
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #18
    Dylan Thomas
    “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.”
    Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  • #19
    Dylan Thomas
    “Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #20
    Dylan Thomas
    “Though lovers be lost love shall not.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #21
    Philip Larkin
    “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
    They may not mean to, but they do.
    They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

    But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,
    Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another's throats.

    Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
    Get out as early as you can,
    And don't have any kids yourself.”
    Philip Larkin, High Windows

  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Robert Frost
    “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
    Robert Frost

  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    Robert Frost

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
    Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
    I have it in me so much nearer home
    To scare myself with my own desert places.”
    Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

  • #28
    Robert Frost
    “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
    Robert Frost

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “I have been one acquainted with the night.
    I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
    I have outwalked the furthest city light.
    I have looked down the saddest city lane.
    I have passed by the watchman on his beat
    And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.”
    Robert Frost
    tags: poem

  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “We ran as if to meet the moon.”
    Robert Frost



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