Quotes & Poems
the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their
actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”
If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
of the folk who give me pain;
or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moment pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.
But I have no lethal weapon-
Thus does fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
who should be, by right, in hell.
- Dorothy Parker
I want you to know one thing,
you know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats that sail
toward those isle of yours that wait for me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly you forget me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember that on that day, at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
the seek another land.
But if each day, each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah, my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without living mine.
- Pablo Neruda
are evil: but because of those who don’t do anything about it.”
Scornfully
the great lady
gave the poor traveller
straw
to sleep on
at daybreak she
gathers it up
crying.
- Anonymous
To Go
if you have already decided
then you will go
why hurry
two or three oh little while stay
while I look at
your face
living we are water running from
a bucket
who knows
whether I will see you
and you will see
me again.
- Anonymous
a change in destiny of human kind.”
inner power.”
All I have to do
is hear his name
and every hair on my body
just bristles with desire.
When I see
the moon of his face,
this frame of mine
Oozes sweat like a moonstone.
When that man
as dear to me as breath
Steps close enough to me
to stroke my neck,
the thought of jealousy
is shattered in my heart
that’s only sometimes
hard as diamond.
- Anonymous
The night rose from the rocks of the canyon.
I’d cove away from your door. And the night,
it left the earth the way a broken man,
his lover’s door closing behind him, leaves
that street in silence for the rest of his life.
- Agha Shahid
of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
to contribute as much joy as lies with in our power.”
If they speak, you break down.”
