113 quotes found
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unk...”
“Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”
“I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”
“A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".”
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
“Some of you say, Joy is greater than sorrow, and others say, Nay, sorrow is the greater.But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, ...”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of t...”
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to ...”
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-se...”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
“For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?”
“Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”
