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I may not want your help, but I always want you beside me.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
To help someone, don’t criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.
— Debasish Mridha
Keep your heads up! We are sinking!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.
— Debasish Mridha
Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
A touch of kindness is like a ray of light in deep darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
Wake up every morning with dreams of a wonderful day.
— Debasish Mridha
When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others.
— Debasish Mridha
A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.
— Debasish Mridha
You can only inspire others when your heart is ready to sing the song of love.
— Debasish Mridha
An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.
— Debasish Mridha
A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.
— Debasish Mridha
A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things.
— Debasish Mridha
What you say reflects how you feel about the world.
— Debasish Mridha
Give your life a destination.
— Debasish Mridha
The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind.
— Debasish Mridha
A moment of kindness can fill your heart with infinite joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend.
— Debasish Mridha
Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.
— Debasish Mridha
Philosophy may not follow any laws but it always follows our perceptions.
— Debasish Mridha
Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.
— Debasish Mridha
When you have your conscious mind, you have everything you need to succeed.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t worry. All of your problems will be solved in the end.
— Debasish Mridha
A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.
— Debasish Mridha
Today’s thoughts will define where you will be tomorrow.
— Debasish Mridha
Your attitude reflects your inner feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.
— Debasish Mridha
I can’t tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.
— Debasish Mridha
A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.
— Debasish Mridha
The depth of consciousness widens our breadth of understanding and makes us uniconscious.
— Debasish Mridha
What does your birth date say about you? You are old!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.
— Debasish Mridha
A smile has a magical power
—  it makes everyone smile back.
Never forget to smile and appreciate yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.
— Debasish Mridha
You are very strong if you're empowered by love and simplicity.
— Debasish Mridha
Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
— Debasish Mridha
Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.
— Debasish Mridha
Give me an enthusiastic, purpose-oriented person and I will give a successful future leader.
— Debasish Mridha
The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life.
— Debasish Mridha
A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.
— Debasish Mridha
Vacations are the best time to find your true self deep inside.
— Debasish Mridha
The whole purpose of education is to transfer and transform knowledge for the future generations so that they can transcend their lives and humanity as a whole.
— Debasish Mridha
If life is an adventure, then a vacation is an adventure to find true joy.
— Debasish Mridha
A vacation is three times more work without the payment.
— Debasish Mridha
Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.
— Debasish Mridha
My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.
— Debasish Mridha
Most successful people are always on vacation.
— Debasish Mridha
In the summer, we create memories of hot adventures so that those memories can warm-up the deep frozen winter.
— Debasish Mridha
We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children.
— Debasish Mridha
Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being.
— Debasish Mridha
In life, storms come not to hurt you but to make you stronger.
— Debasish Mridha
We think that time is changing, but that may not be true. Everything else is changing and time is standing still and watching.
— Debasish Mridha
Try to control your anger before it burns your life.
— Debasish Mridha
Every day of life is an adventure. Don’t fear to dare and never forget to enjoy it.
— Debasish Mridha
If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don’t participate, you are already a loser.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy the magnificence of life, drink every drop of life and get drunk.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace.
— Debasish Mridha
I have no special gift. With deep love, I give what I have.
— Debasish Mridha
How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Your birth filled your parents with joy, your universe with love, and your soul with the flowers of hope. May those flowers of hope bloom with the fragrance of endless success.
— Debasish Mridha
To fill our lives with joy, the morning sun touches our hearts with the warmth of her kindness and the light of her love. Let us be like the sun touch someone’s life with kindness every morning.
— Debasish Mridha
Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message.
— Debasish Mridha
The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Your heart sees the beauty of life and your soul realizes the ecstasy of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.
— Debasish Mridha
Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The more you get lost in love, the more love you will find to enjoy and appreciate.
— Debasish Mridha
You are the soul of the universe, the eyes of the world, and the feelings of nature.
— Debasish Mridha
Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution.
— Debasish Mridha
To express your love for the universe, be like a cloud to dwell in the high altitudes, and never forget to transform yourself into the water of humility.
— Debasish Mridha
Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?
— Debasish Mridha
Ah! Your eyes are lighting the moon with the silvery lights of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity.
— Debasish Mridha
Loving is more important than living; without love, life has no meaning.
— Debasish Mridha
The truth is that there is no absolute truth.
— Debasish Mridha
If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.
— Debasish Mridha
A goal without action is like a late night dream.
— Debasish Mridha
Before believing—think. Before accepting—feel.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
I can’t express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
Winning is something, but participation is everything.
— Debasish Mridha
A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal.
— Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.
— Debasish Mridha
I am not brilliant. I am curious and persistent.
— Debasish Mridha
You can change a life with a simple touch of kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.
— Debasish Mridha
It is almost impossible to write about those moments and feelings of indescribable joy and ecstasy which only a soul can realize. Your silent, pleasant, and blissful presence often gives me those moments.
— Debasish Mridha
Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Dare to dream big. Never fear to fail. Take actions with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Make each day, the best day of life.
— Debasish Mridha
We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter.
— Debasish Mridha
The best way of life, is the way of love.
— Debasish Mridha
We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite.
— Debasish Mridha
Like Mother Theresa, your greatness unfolds by the kindness you show to the weakest members of humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t go to sleep to dream. Wake up and dream.
— Debasish Mridha
To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.
— Debasish Mridha
Turn your failure into a fairytale.
— Debasish Mridha
There are beauties all around you. All you have to do is look to reveal them.
— Debasish Mridha
The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.
— Debasish Mridha
Dreaming is good—especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don’t act on them.
— Debasish Mridha
You don’t need money to be kind, but you cannot be kind without a heart.
— Debasish Mridha
You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
How strange! Life gets easier when we get better.
— Debasish Mridha
When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever.
— Debasish Mridha
For a peaceful world, the golden rules to live by are mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, and love.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy it again and again in those moments of joy and despair, I carry the beauty of your love in the hidden chamber of my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love.
— Debasish Mridha
Even in silence and darkness, the heart can see more beauty than the eyes.
— Debasish Mridha
The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.
— Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the essence of experiences.
— Debasish Mridha
A knowledgeable curious mind is the bridging ground for ideas.
— Debasish Mridha
A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.
— Debasish Mridha
Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge will reveal its value only when we use it to gain wisdom through experience.
— Debasish Mridha
I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.
— Debasish Mridha
Your uniqueness is your trademark.
— Debasish Mridha
To find yourself: be yourself, trust yourself, and love yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
In life, nothing is impossible to achieve when you have enthusiasm, optimism, confidence, and commitment.
— Debasish Mridha
Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.
— Debasish Mridha
In the end, you will forget to love, and you will not have the ability to offend. When you have the ability to love, love and forget to offend.
— Debasish Mridha
If you can begin with enthusiasm and confidence, you are half way to success.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is as precious to us as it is for an animal. An animal is as loving, caring, and kind to her children as we are. She might not be able to tell us but she can express it through her eyes and expressions. She feels joy and happiness. She is helpless in our cruel hands and vulnerable to our vicious greed. Let us be kind to animals. Let us learn to feel their pain. Can we kill a helpless baby to feed our greed? Then how can we kill helpless animal friends that can’t talk? Often we kill just for fun. How funny would it be if an animal killed a human just for fun? Let us be kind to animals as much as possible. I know we can. It is easier to love an animal than a human being. If you love an animal, it will rarely hurt you. Let us practice kindness and compassion to animals so that we may create a peaceful world.
— Debasish Mridha
If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god’s favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.
— Debasish Mridha
When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.
— Debasish Mridha
Always believe in your heart that you can do what you dream.
— Debasish Mridha
You don’t have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the best makeup to emphasize your inner beauty and outer glow.
— Debasish Mridha
When you are enthusiastic and optimistic with faith, nothing will be impossible for you to achieve.
— Debasish Mridha
There are two kinds of people. There are those who love you and make your life beautiful. There are those that hurt you and the pain encourages you to be wonderful.
— Debasish Mridha
The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly.
— Debasish Mridha
Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.
— Debasish Mridha
Never forget to be someone even when you get lost in the wildness of a crowd.
— Debasish Mridha
Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Appreciate what you have to get more of what you want.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song.
— Debasish Mridha
You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.
— Debasish Mridha
You cannot reach the pinnacle of success without overcoming the fear of failure just like you can’t reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.
— Debasish Mridha
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Begin with a new goal and with a new enthusiasm to create abundance in your life.
— Debasish Mridha
The secret to abundance in life is to begin with an abundant mindset and a caring heart.
— Debasish Mridha
To reveal your greatness, don’t wait for a great opportunity. Find a simple opportunity to care and share your great love.
— Debasish Mridha
Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life.
— Debasish Mridha
When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions.
— Debasish Mridha
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t wait for a perfect person to love. Love a person and make him or her perfect with your power of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Be a person of value, but never try to define your worth.
— Debasish Mridha
The prime purposes of our lives is to help others, love others, and be kind to others.
— Debasish Mridha
Be like a tree, bloom like a flower, sing like a bird, and dance like a peacock.
— Debasish Mridha
There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
You can’t start a new life if you continue to dwell in your past.
— Debasish Mridha
Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment.
— Debasish Mridha
A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it.
— Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.
— Debasish Mridha
To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love.
— Debasish Mridha
Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.
— Debasish Mridha
A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.
— Debasish Mridha
Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism.
— Debasish Mridha
You sing in my mind and dance in my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.
— Debasish Mridha
Even if you are sad, don’t forget to sing the song of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life.
— Debasish Mridha
You are the writer of your life story
—  so don’t forget to write the best one.
You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value.
— Debasish Mridha
Always focus on what is important—not what is urgent.
— Debasish Mridha
Some people come into your life like a flower. She fills your heart with love, amuses your mind with her beauty, and leaves you with enduring joy because she once touched your life.
— Debasish Mridha
A smile is the best makeup that can change your looks and your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is not a place
—  it is a feeling in your being.
Happiness is very simple. To be happy, think happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
You will not be a success in every business, but if you don’t start a business you will never be a success.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is not a place to wander. Love is a feeling to deeply appreciate and enjoy.
— Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life.
— Debasish Mridha
To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
No sé por qué tendemos a temer tanto estar solos. Sé que no le ocurre a todo el mundo, pero hay una tendencia general a entrar en un estado de pánico tras la ruptura ante la posibilidad de no encontrar a nadie con quien compartir tu vida ¿Y qué? ¿Qué importa si eso no sucede? Nada, absolutamente nada; volcar la posibilidad de ser feliz en la existencia de otra persona es la única raíz del problema, ni más ni menos.
— Neïra, Fuiste mi verano
Let us be loving, caring, and kind to everyone we meet in this beautiful journey called life. At the end nothing else matters.
— Debasish Mridha
Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.
— Sope Agbelusi
Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.
— Mohith Agadi
Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Not everyone around you are your friends or well wishers, Just be conscious.
— Mohith Agadi
Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Pronaci cemo se.Onda kada i vreme zaboravi na nas.Pronaci ces me negde u sebi,tu gde se krijes iza laznih i prolaznih ociju.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
What others will think?” has killed the most dreams,Living the mainstream has never been the mainstream,Free people know how to live without remorse,They know ships aren’t meant to stay at shores.
— Sahil Sachdeva
Don’t just wish and dream—take action to make it happen.
— Debasish Mridha
Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple.
— Debasish Mridha
Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.
— Debasish Mridha
Be simple
—  it is beautiful. Never forget to be kind
A new baby is the beginning of a new universe—his own unique universe.
— Debasish Mridha
You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?
— Debasish Mridha
We don’t see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions.
— Debasish Mridha
All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
— Victor Hugo
The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both	And be one traveler, long I stood	And looked down one as far as I could	To where it bent in the undergrowth;	 Then took the other, as just as fair,	And having perhaps the better claim,	Because it was grassy and wanted wear;	Though as for that the passing there	Had worn them really about the same,	 And both that morning equally lay	In leaves no step had trodden black.	Oh, I kept the first for another day!	Yet knowing how way leads on to way,	I doubted if I should ever come back.	 I shall be telling this with a sigh	Somewhere ages and ages hence:	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—	I took the one less traveled by,	And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah   Williams
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
— Leonardo da Vinci
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
— E.E. Cummings
Resist much, obey little.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
— Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.
— Robert Frost
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!
— Shel Silverstein
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.
— Mary Oliver
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
— Walt Whitman
Let our scars fall in love.
— Galway Kinnell
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.
— Anne Sexton
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
—  I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
— T.S. Eliot
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
— T.S. Eliot
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
— Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Always be a poet, even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
— Charles Bukowski
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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
— George Gordon Byron
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
— William Shakespeare
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
I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
— Derek Walcott
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
— W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.
— Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems
Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away ere break of dayTo seek the pale enchanted gold.The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,While hammers fell like ringing bellsIn places deep, where dark things sleep,In hollow halls beneath the fells.For ancient king and elvish lordThere many a gleaming golden hoardThey shaped and wrought, and light they caughtTo hide in gems on hilt of sword.On silver necklaces they strungThe flowering stars, on crowns they hungThe dragon-fire, in twisted wireThey meshed the light of moon and sun.Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away, ere break of day,To claim our long-forgotten gold.Goblets they carved there for themselvesAnd harps of gold; where no man delvesThere lay they long, and many a songWas sung unheard by men or elves.The pines were roaring on the height,The wind was moaning in the night.The fire was red, it flaming spread;The trees like torches blazed with light.The bells were ringing in the daleAnd men looked up with faces pale;The dragon's ire more fierce than fireLaid low their towers and houses frail.The mountain smoked beneath the moon;The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.They fled their hall to dying fallBeneath his feet, beneath the moon.Far over the misty mountains grimTo dungeons deep and caverns dimWe must away, ere break of day,To win our harps and gold from him!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
to live in this worldyou must be ableto do three thingsto love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
Summer night--even the starsare whispering to each other.
— Kobayashi Issa
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
— Greg Bear
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.
— Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I
listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door
—  let’s go
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
— Vincent van Gogh
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
— Novalis
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin
Music is the universal language of mankind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
— Jack Kerouac
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
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.
— Robert Frost
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
— Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
— William Ernest Henley, Invictus
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. 
— Rainer Maria Rilke
She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes...
— George Gordon Byron
April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
— Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One
Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
— W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
— Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
— William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror –The wide brown land for me!
— Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
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, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
— Robinson Jeffers
You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
— John Green, Paper Towns
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
— Dylan Thomas
My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
— Robert Frost
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
— T.S. Eliot
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
— John Keats
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
— Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
— Santosh Kalwar
grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the bella house that blows into the airat the slightest gustthat buries itself deep in the groundwhile everyone is sleepinggrief is a house where no one can protect youwhere the younger sisterwill grow older than the older onewhere the doorsno longer let you inor out
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.
— E.E. Cummings
life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis
— E.E. Cummings
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me.
— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!
— Jalaluddin Rumi
you can take this mouththis wound you wantbut you can't kissand make itbetter.
— Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn
The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.
— Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.
— Jim Morrison, Letters from Joe
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one
— Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun
Peace is always beautiful.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
I?I walk alone;The midnight streetSpins itself from under my feet;My eyes shutThese dreaming houses all snuff out;Through a whim of mineOver gables the moon's celestial onionHangs high.IMake houses shrinkAnd trees diminishBy going far; my look's leashDangles the puppet-peopleWho, unaware how they dwindle,Laugh, kiss, get drunk,Nor guess that if I choose to blinkThey die.IWhen in good humour,Give grass its greenBlazon sky blue, and endow the sunWith gold;Yet, in my wintriest moods, I holdAbsolute powerTo boycott color and forbid any flowerTo be.IKnow you appearVivid at my side,Denying you sprang out of my head,Claiming you feelLove fiery enough to prove flesh real,Though it's quite clearAll your beauty, all your wit, is a gift, my dear,From me."Soliloquy of the Solipsist", 1956
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.
— Shel Silverstein
I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
— Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not youngand may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile
— E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe evento float a littleabove this difficult world.
— Mary Oliver
How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity.
— Emily Dickinson
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye
— Margaret Atwood
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,From these our interviews, in which I stealFrom all I may be, or have been before,To mingle with the Universe, and feelWhat I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
— George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and un-suspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods-- all rise within me to mean you, who forever elude me. You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced  upon,-- you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening... 
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
You are never too old to become younger!
— Mae West
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
— Pablo Neruda
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
— William Blake, Jerusalem
I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you like a thing,shrewd and secretive.I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,as it goes toward action;and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is coming near,I want to be with those who know secret thingsor else alone.I want to be a mirror for your whole body,and I never want to be blind, or to be too oldto hold up your heavy and swaying picture.I want to unfold.I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,because where I am folded, there I am a lie.and I want my grasp of things to betrue before you. I want to describe myselflike a painting that I looked atclosely for a long time,like a saying that I finally understood,like the pitcher I use every day,like the face of my mother,like a shipthat carried methrough the wildest storm of all.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
— Edgar Allan Poe
So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
What can be explained is not poetry.
— W.B. Yeats
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
— W.H. Auden
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
— John Keats, The Complete Poems
Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...
— George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands-excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems
— E.E. Cummings
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
Time for you and time for me,	And time yet for a hundred indecisions,	And for a hundred visions and revisions,	Before the taking of a toast and tea.
— T.S. Eliot
What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.
— Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters
All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.
— Clementine von Radics
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.
— Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
— Emily Dickinson
Poetry = Anger x Imagination
— Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song