Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
CHRISTOPHER FRY Life is like a sandwich!
Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you p...
ALLAN RUFUS Any last words?”
“Go to hell, you freaking…filthy…godforsaken…”
Our noses almo...
ANNA KATMORE Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
H...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live with...
IRVING TOWNSEND If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothi...
PABLO NERUDA The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame.
He might get burned, but he's in the game.
A...
AIMEE MANN I went out to the hazel wood
because a fire was in my head
cut and peeled a hazel wand
W.B. YEATS XVII
Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come,
A thief a warrior and a mole.
Though the quest ma...
BRIAN JACQUES Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us...
JOSEPH BATHANTI The end of birth is death; the end of death
Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,
Chi...
BHAGAVAD GITA And may be between building and breaking we find our lives somewhere.
Building dreams, ea...
WORDIONS You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell...
SULARI GENTILL At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
GEORGE HARRISON At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.
It i...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a worl...
SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death. The strange
And ignominious end of ol...
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the layi...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE we walk by many times and not see
as it may only appear to be what one might think they see
LEVI PAUL TAYLOR By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Late Hours"
On summer nights the world
moves within earshot
on the interstate w...
LISEL MUELLER Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Solo For Ear-Trumpet
The carriage brushes through the bright
Leaves (vi...
EDITH SITWELL Your heart beats between the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
“Dissolve” says Death,
The S...
EMILY DICKINSON This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pai...
OMAR KHAYYáM CHOOSE WISELY'
Birth wasn't your choice,
and neither shall death be.
But the way you...
MADDY MALHOTRA For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If t...
WILLIAM BLAKE Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every ...
HERMANN HESSE "maggie and millie and molly and may"
maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS We are all in the same boat,
boat of life. Does not seem
to be a rudder with oarsman.
ROBERT TRABOLD If this turns to friendship, it only means
That one of us will suffer.
That when we ...
CYRIL WONG Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On...
ROBERT FROST Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen....
ANNE SEXTON We lived in the attic,
Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me,
Now there are only three.
V.C. ANDREWS Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevit...
BHAGAVAD GITA He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light...
HENRY JAMES Death makes its own choices.
Has reasoning an order has a taste…
ANGELO TSANATELIS At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
ANI DIFRANCO Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't r...
BILL WATTERSON They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are...
THOMAS HARRIS My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by De...
ANDREW MARVELL I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicke...
فرید الدین عطار Your friendship is a glowing ember
Through the year; and each December
From its warm and ...
THELMA J. LUND Understanding the birth, evolution and death of stars is an important piece of information. It's all...
EDWARD KOLB representation
is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
u...
RUPI KAUR I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustlin...
ALAN SEEGER When one door closes, find another."
Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door...
C.C. HUNTER May We Love Ourselves.
May We Love Each Other.
May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come Tr...
MELIA KEETON-DIGBY Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your ne...
ANNE SEXTON Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
COLETTE Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Let's burn our masks at midnight
and as flickering flames ascend,
under the witness of sta...
JOHN MARK GREEN All right, then,” she snapped, “do as you please! Perhaps afterward we could manage a coherent d...
LISA KLEYPAS Mild is the slow necessity of death;
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
Without a gr...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Hide the miles between us
Run to me
Like you run your
Fingers through my hair
De...
VERONIKA JENSEN We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan...
EMILY DICKINSON This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
...
ALLAMA IQBAL Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is only a horizon.
Life is eternal as we move into t...
CARLY SIMON Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
DESMOND MORRIS Black for hunting through the night
For death and mourning the color's white
G...
CASSANDRA CLARE God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car windo...
S. JANE SLOAT Sonnet I
If thee must say that I am not who I am,
That I am not real or true,<...
SHANNON L. ALDER We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death....
TERRY PRATCHETT A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterf...
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Nobody rules the world.
We may take care of planet earth
as a harmonious part in our unive...
PETRA HERMANS Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN If only we were not that seedling of Creation,
Of Earth and its generations,
If only we ha...
ADONIS As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mot...
JAMES OPPENHEIM When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
MARY OLIVER maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie dis...
E.E. CUMMINGS The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we...
MUNIA KHAN The Weight of One Feather"
Given.
Many fear death
Because they already SUZY KASSEM Our body is a sacred temple
A place to connect with people.
As we aren't staying any you...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out ...
RUDOLF STEINER Don't touch me.
Don't you dare touch me.
Unless you plan on leaving
a story beh...
PAVANA पवन Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker
do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER The Wind Will Carry Us
In my night, so brief, alas
The wind is about to meet the lea...
FOROUGH FARROKHZAD We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow t...
JESSICA-LYNN BARBOUR Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,
that soft summer morning
round a turning in the...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cl...
KAHLIL GIBRAN We Have a Chance
To Save Lives
If We Don't Take It
We May Regret It
Like We Did<...
WIDAD AKREYI May the God who gives endurance and encouragement
give you a spirit of unity among yourselves ...
ANONYMOUS Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
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CASSANDRA CLARE Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space bet...
ANGELA LONG our feet
are grape-squashed in memories
our skins are still flushed
from the t...
SANOBER KHAN
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STEPHEN FRY I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ...
STEPHEN FRY The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...
STEPHEN FRY It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of t...
STEPHEN FRY I’m not even tone deaf, that’s the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing....
STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, t...
STEPHEN FRY The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic resul...
STEPHEN FRY Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into wh...
STEPHEN FRY Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to...
STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their...
STEPHEN FRY I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth...
STEPHEN FRY None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have al...
STEPHEN FRY As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement an...
STEPHEN FRY Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
STEPHEN FRY I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...
STEPHEN FRY And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.
The sky was never the same colou...
STEPHEN FRY People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
STEPHEN FRY It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
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