Quotes - JAMAL AL-SAYED (ALMARDABOON) (ADEN, 04, Yemen) Showing 1-30 of 230

#1

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11827 likes

#2

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

2493 likes

#3

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

1465 likes

#4

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing

949 likes

#5

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

tags: healing, poetry

1638 likes

#6

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men”
― T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925

tags: philosophy, poetry

540 likes

#7

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry

1774 likes

#8

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

tags: poetry

328 likes

#9

“This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.”
― Basho Matsuo

tags: haiku, life, poetry

145 likes

#10

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

11430 likes

#11

“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.”
― Plato

9954 likes

#12

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom

4431 likes

#13

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

5053 likes

#14

“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.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

2385 likes

#15

“may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: loneliness, poetry, travel

845 likes

#16

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: poetry, wit

100 likes

#17

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

tags: expression, language, poetry

231 likes

#18

“It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: blackbeard, hanging, pirates, poetry

37 likes

#19

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

tags: life

109282 likes

#20

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41000 likes

#21

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

26444 likes

#22

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

42405 likes

#23

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36842 likes

#24

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

21131 likes

#25

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37058 likes

#26