Poetry

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

~ Robert Frost

To Live In This World

“to live in this world

you must be able

to do three things ---

to love what is mortal;

to hold it against your bones 

knowing your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go”

~ Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Poetry

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

~ Robert Frost

If You Have The Words

“If you have the words, 

there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

~ Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: 

Interviews with Seamus Heaney

I Like This Place

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

~ William Shakespeare

Always Be A Poet

“Always be a poet, 

even in prose.”

~ Charles Baudelaire

You Only Live Twice

“You only live twice: 

Once when you are born

And once when you look death in the face”

~ Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

There Is A Pleasure

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more”

~ Lord Byron

If I Had My Life

“If I had my life to live over again, 

I would have made a rule to read some poetry 

and listen to some music at least once every week.”

~ Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

...And Then

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, 

and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

~ Vincent Willem van Gogh

As It Has Been Said

“As it has been said:

Love and a cough

cannot be concealed.

Even a small cough.

Even a small love.”

~ Anne Sexton

Forgive Oh Lord

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

~ Robert Frost

Let Our Scars

“Let our scars fall in love.”

~ Galway Kinnell

This Is The Way

“This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

~ T.S. Eliot

Though My Soul

“Though my soul may set in darkness, 

it will rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too fondly 

to be fearful of the night.”

~ Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse