You Might As Well Ask

“You might as well ask an artist

to explain his art, 

or ask a poet to explain his poem. 

It defeats the purpose. 

The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

~ Rick Riordan

What A Strange Thing

“What a strange thing! 

To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”

~ Kobayashi Issa, Poems

We Shall Not Cease

“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

There Is Freedom

“There is freedom waiting for you,

On the breezes of the sky,

And you ask "What if I fall?"

Oh but my darling,

What if you fly?”

~ Erin Hanson

Poetry

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

~ Charles Bukowski

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