No poems can please
No poems can
please for long or live
that are written by water-drinkers.
- Horace -
The poems may be used
The poems… may
be used as a barometer,
but let us not forget that he
is also part of the weather.
– Lionel Trilling -
Poems is nobody
Poems is nobody’s
business except the poet’s,
and everybody else can fuck off.
– Philip Larkin -
poems is plucking at the heartstrings
poems is plucking at the heartstrings,
and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor -
A poems work is to name the unnameable
A poems work is to name the unnameable,
to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,
shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie -
poems is just the evidence of life
poems is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well,
poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen -
The reason most people never reach their goals
The reason most people
never reach their goals is that
they don’t define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable.
Winners can tell you where they are going,
what they plan to do along the way,
and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley -
What gems of painting
What gems of painting or
statuary are in the world of art,
or what flowers are in the world of nature,
are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
It is delightful to transport
It is delightful to transport
one’s self into the spirit of the past,
to see how a wise man has thought before us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A maxim is the exact and noble expression
A maxim is the exact
and noble expression of an
important and indisputable truth.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;
when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
- Joseph Joubert -