At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES By the sun and its brightness And [by] the moon when it follows it And [by] the day when... ANONYMOUS Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, t... WENDELL BERRY Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon SANOBER KHAN He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child. Its bones are soft, its muscles... LAO TZU Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever RAINER MARIA RILKE Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter... ANNA AKHMATOVA Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green ... MARY OLIVER Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes.... MARY OLIVER Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cl... KAHLIL GIBRAN My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn i... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labor... MAX EHRMANN I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that w... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act i... HERACLITUS For all these stars, nothing is new. They’ve seen all kinds of wars and miracles, t... KAMAND KOJOURI Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm... WILLIAM BLAKE What happens to the drop of wine That you pour into the sea? Does it remain itself, unchan... JACOPONE DA TODI He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heave... EMILY BRONTë I have spent so many nights out under the stars Euphoria running through my veins and alcohol c... MORRIS R. GATES Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed t... PABLO NERUDA I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Nam... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Blessings on the hand of women! Angels guard its strength and grace, In the palace, cottage,... WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE I'm a Kashmiri , I live in a rogue place. I'm surrounded by conformist , boot licking... BINYAMIN GULZAR Your friendship is a glowing ember
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From its warm and ... THELMA J. LUND Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with li... J.R.R. TOLKIEN With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful... MAX EHRMANN you deserve for your heart to be heard- because love lights a fire in us all. it... ALEXANDRA ELLE Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of t... EDWIN MARKHAM The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery tur... SYLVIA PLATH With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sw... JOHN MILTON Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r... SYLVIA PLATH Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing ... ROMAN PAYNE The Volunteer AT dawn, he said, I bid them all farewell, To go where bugles call and rifl... ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER I mean, have you ever imagined the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa... JEFFREY MCDANIEL One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and... LEWIS CARROLL I mean, have you ever imagined the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa... JEFFREY MCDANIEL This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI Hearts In Me If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes Then surely I’ll be int... JAY WOODMAN The Formless Way We look at it, and do not see it; it is invisible. We listen to it, and d... LAO TZU Pressure knocks at my door A clock ticks and demands its due The lava burns from the floor... JUSTIN WETCH Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination MARY OLIVER Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up ... ELLEN HOPKINS They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav... JOHN MILTON STAINS With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of ... BRENDA SUTTON ROSE When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I... BRIAN JACQUES oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its ... MARY OLIVER (I know, it's a poem but oh well). Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of ... WALT WHITMAN Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE In a season like this, I wouldn't be held by the snow. With all these feelings of bliss, EMMANUEL AGHADO THE WEATHER OF LOVE Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the s... SUZY KASSEM The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, W... LOUIS MACNEICE Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) <... E.E. CUMMINGS Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocen... DIANE WAKOSKI THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, It... ANTHONY THWAITE Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; DANTE ALIGHIERI XVI I love the handful of the earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast as a planet, PABLO NERUDA during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores CHARLES BUKOWSKI I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my ... JULIA DONALDSON nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whos... E.E. CUMMINGS A dragon grows in leaps and bounds, Like troubles mounting by the pound. Its stature... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. Wi... JUSTIN WETCH Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good t... MARGARET WISE BROWN And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." ... HAFEZ There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I am filled time and again with a heart-aching wonder when I think of the fire... SANOBER KHAN They stay in my mind, these beautiful people, or anyway beautiful people to me, of which t... MARY OLIVER Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a bab... MARCUS AMAKER Love entered in my heart one day A sad, unwelcome guest. But when it begged that it might ... J. CALIFORNIA COOPER Tech Live Connect | Software Update Tech Live Connect to commercially operate in 2011, wi... TECH LIVE CONNECT High buildings fall, black oceans rise, and coins sink in height Where weapons smash in every ... YEHYA EL KOUZI Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down f... ROBERT BROWNING Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed On... ROBERT FROST VISION OF A WISARD How many of you wish to be Wizards when you grow old? How many of... NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can... ROALD DAHL It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! ... EMILY DICKINSON I have a spelling checker It came with my PC; It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I can... JANET MINOR There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least ... SOPHOCLES WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me.... KAMAND KOJOURI The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit y... PIERRE DRIEU LA ROCHELLE Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain ... PABLO NERUDA Blow on, ye death fraught whirlwinds! blow, Around the rocks, and rifted caves; Ye demons... ANNE BANNERMAN The mirror sighed and spoke in a tone tinged with melancholy. Its language was old and not of any of... SUKANYA VENKATRAGHAVAN I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares... SARA TEASDALE Come to me. Why must you ruin this moment? You are burdened with thought. Burdened wi... KAMAND KOJOURI Your heart beats between the palm of my hand. Its need to be One with me Drips B... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN ROCK STATE OF MIND The lights go out Darkness takes over my mind I can see only... EVY MICHAELS THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highwa... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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LOUIS L'AMOUR The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. LOUIS L'AMOUR Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t... LOUIS L'AMOUR A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. LOUIS L'AMOUR Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?" "Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip... LOUIS L'AMOUR Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on LOUIS L'AMOUR Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. LOUIS L'AMOUR To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd. LOUIS L'AMOUR All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a... LOUIS L'AMOUR Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ... LOUIS L'AMOUR You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an... L'PONI BALDWIN He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an... L'PONI BALDWIN I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Plato... L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<... L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate... L'PONI BALDWIN La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe... MADELEINE PEYROUX Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE