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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
    Don't go back to sleep!
    You must ask for what you really want.
    Don't go back to sleep!
    People are going back and forth
    across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
    The door is round and open
    Don't go back to sleep!”
    ― Rumi
    tags: belle-prater-s-boy, poetry, ruth-white
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
    1591 likes

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    Anne Sexton
    “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
    ― Anne Sexton
    tags: living, soul
    910 likes

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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
    2366 likes

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  • #5
    Plato
    “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
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: fourth-elegy, pretentious
    155 likes

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    Omar Khayyám
    “I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
    Some letter of that After-life to spell:
    And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
    And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
    ― Omar Khayyam
    tags: heaven-and-hell, life, persian-poetry, poetry
    327 likes

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    Cheryl Strayed
    “The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”
    ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Here
    I'm here-
    the snow falling.”
    ― Issa
    tags: haiku, nature, poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
    The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
    If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: knowledge, learning, philosophy, poetry, teaching, wisdom
    433 likes

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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Summer night--
    even the stars
    are whispering to each other.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: poetry
    1688 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: adoration, love, poetry
    1676 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “I want to see thirst
    In the syllables,
    Tough fire
    In the sound;
    Feel through the dark
    For the scream.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    227 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: delight, heart, joy, joyous, look-truth, sorrow, weeping
    134 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
    11427 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “life's not a paragraph
    And death i think is no parenthesis”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
    793 likes

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
    2795 likes

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    Mae West
    “You are never too old to become younger!”
    ― Mae West
    tags: maturity, paradox, poetry, story, story-telling, youthfulness
    555 likes

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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2815 likes

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    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    ― Novalis
    tags: healing, poetry
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “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.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
    ― Robert Frost
    597 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Time for you and time for me,
    And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
    And for a hundred visions and revisions,
    Before the taking of a toast and tea.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: poetry
    525 likes

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  • #24
    John Keats
    “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
    ― John Keats
    tags: art, beauty, poetry
    250 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
    Tears from the depths of some devine despair
    Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
    In looking on the happy autumn fields,
    And thinking of the days that are no more.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: life, memories, poetry, sadness
    1120 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: poetry
    457 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Like a sculptor, if necessary,
    carve a friend out of stone.
    Realize that your inner sight is blind
    and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
    ― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
    556 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “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
    4434 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    89 likes



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