I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.
Mary Oliver
Related TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you.... SUZY KASSEM I see your pain as clearly as I feel my own. I will share your burden so you feel it... KAMAND KOJOURI Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not ... ELLEN HOPKINS The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up. They bring you D O W N. Th... COLLEEN HOOVER Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spani... ALEXANDER BLOK unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are... PABLO NERUDA i hope that whoever you are wherever you are and no matter how you are feeling SANOBER KHAN I will take your heart. I will take your soul out of your body As though I were God. ... LANGSTON HUGHES Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything ... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fea... SARA TEASDALE You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It ... RICHELLE MEAD ... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Exactly when will you give up? When things will seem out of your hands ? When ... SANHITA BARUAH Better associations __________________ If you associate yourself with a change maker... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I wen... MARY OLIVER Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate. Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful. SHANNON L. ALDER Look for it, and it can’t be seen. Listen for it, and it can’t be heard. Grasp for it,... LAO TZU Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will b... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out o... DR. SEUSS As for life, I'm humbled, I'm without words sufficient to say how it has b... MARY OLIVER eat, baby. eat. chew. please. I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good. CAITLYN SIEHL THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a li... ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. I promise I'll never tell." "Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t... JERI SMITH-READY I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g... BARRY MANILOW Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-... WENDELL BERRY You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself an... DR. SEUSS It’s sarcasm, Josh.” “Sarcasm?” “It’s from the Greek, sarkasmos. T... CHRISTOPHER MOORE Georgie: I feel stupid. Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just wal... THERESA REBECK If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN Something about you caught me by surprise Though I always knew you’d be my demise. R.S. GREY LOVE IS A FLOWER Treat your relationship As if you are growing The most beautif... SUZY KASSEM While I slept you stood in the colorful night market with pyramids of bright fruit pi... BRENDA HILLMAN Here's a funny question: What is your favorite word? Think about it—maybe it... VERA NAZARIAN I tried to warn you, But girls never listen. Got your innocence insured? ... WENDY HIGGINS If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: PABLO NERUDA It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی Life is a valuable and unique opportunity to discover who you are. But it seems as soon as... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had n... CHARLES BUKOWSKI So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you go... MITCH ALBOM The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you ... KAMAND KOJOURI i love good cries, loud sobs that soak your pillow that kind that come at the end of ... MADISEN KUHN People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To t... TIM MCGRAW Everything we say and do affects people. It can be either physically or mentally. Words ca... HINA YU there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfr... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON May you find serenity and tranquility in a worl... SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS -Desiderata- Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may... MAX EHRMANN In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch anoth... ROBIN HOBB Start by pulling him out of the fire and hoping that he will forget the smell. He was supp... CAITLYN SIEHL Grief is an emotional rollercoaster. You will have your ups and downs and moments of terro... KATE MCGAHAN Just Friends I know that I don't own you, and perhaps I never will, so anger wh... LANG LEAV It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI Are you done eating that?" "What?" "You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some." JESSE ANDREWS Dear Human: You've got it all wrong. You didn't come here to master unconditional lo... COURTNEY A. WALSH Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter ke... ZUBAIR AHSAN Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it ove... NAYYIRAH WAHEED I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks KAMAND KOJOURI There will always be those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen ... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Let your wisdom guide you On your own personal journey By listening to your heart Yo... KAREN HACKEL Oh dear heart, save yourself. will you not sing yourself to sleep humming wishes you... HANNAH CAO People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all thos... FRANK SPOTNITZ Blue jeans, white shirt Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn It was like, J... LANA DEL REY Empty Spaces I wanted to feel less. To not be burdened by emotion, To not feel... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Te... JASZ GILL Who was it that hurt you, stole light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and ... JOHN MARK GREEN XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until y... E.E. CUMMINGS FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, JOSé N. HARRIS The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, thou... MARY OLIVER I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to sh... AKASH MANDAL String of love Universe surrounds you The Saints kneels to you My freezin... JHUNMAR SIMILA I don’t have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love. It was that one awkward mov... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that i... KAMAND KOJOURI I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names ... KAMAND KOJOURI When I was a child, an angel came to say, A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,... SHANNON L. ALDER Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my ... RICK YANCEY Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication t... KAMAND KOJOURI Saying goodbye doesn't mean You don't love him anymore, Nor that you no longer will. ... JOCELYN SORIANO A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS YOUR GREATER ANIMAL They say that if you are Ever confronted by A lion or... SUZY KASSEM When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let ... PAUL MCCARTNEY Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will ... LAO TZU I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A th... AMIT ABRAHAM I had an accident." "That seemes to happen a lot." "It wasn't my fault." ... RICHELLE MEAD People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. I... MOTHER TERESA Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Te... JASZ GILL The Master's Sacred Knowledge. Love is the treasure you should seek! The grea... ALLAN RUFUS and you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this... CHARLES BUKOWSKI when you walk, you look like you’re trying to disappear. your back is gonna be fucked up. CAITLYN SIEHL One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept s... MARY OLIVER Do not hold your breath for anyone, Do not wish your lungs to be still, It may delay the c... ERIN HANSON You are writing a Gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that y... PAUL B. GILBERT You know I'll be Your Life Your Voice Your Reason To Be My Love My Heart... ONE DIRECTION The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes.... MARY OLIVER Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like ... A.E. HOUSMAN
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MARY OLIVER The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes.... MARY OLIVER Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the wei... MARY OLIVER How I go to the woods Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single ... MARY OLIVER I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this... MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the b... MARY OLIVER The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers. MARY OLIVER You must never stop being whimsical. MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life... MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my li... MARY OLIVER It learns quickly what sort of courtship it is going to be. Say you promise to be at your ... MARY OLIVER And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the ... MARY OLIVER In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would ... MARY OLIVER You’re like a little wild thing that was never sent to school. MARY OLIVER and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another,... MARY OLIVER It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or che... MARY OLIVER DAISIES It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there ... MARY OLIVER Now and again there's a moment, when the heart cries aloud: yes, I am willing to be t... MARY OLIVER Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat? He is wiser than that, I thi... MARY OLIVER ...to be absent from the world and alive, again, in another... MARY OLIVER I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best f... MARY OLIVER And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies? MARY OLIVER The water, that circle of shattered glass, healed itself with a slow whisper and lay back MARY OLIVER All my life I have been restless- I have felt there is something more wonderful than ... MARY OLIVER Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination MARY OLIVER When I have to die, I would like to die on a day of rain - long rain, slow rain, the kind ... MARY OLIVER Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green ... MARY OLIVER They stay in my mind, these beautiful people, or anyway beautiful people to me, of which t... MARY OLIVER And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire... MARY OLIVER When it over, I want to say:all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a brideg... MARY OLIVER When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a b... MARY OLIVER At Blackwater Pond At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a... MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them ... MARY OLIVER Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your o... MARY OLIVER Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, a... MARY OLIVER When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when... MARY OLIVER Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly MARY OLIVER In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies in... MARY OLIVER Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell ... MARY OLIVER The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own ... MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles thro... MARY OLIVER TIDES Every day the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled unde... MARY OLIVER Percy and Books Percy does not like it when I read a book. He puts his face over th... MARY OLIVER I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better... OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to... OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ... OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact... OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people... OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T... OLIVER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o... JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -... OLIVER SACKS The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli... JOHN OLIVER I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. JOHN OLIVER I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo... OLIVER STONE I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. OLIVER STONE You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w... 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OLIVER STONE Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder... OLIVER STONE I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th... OLIVER STONE I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin... OLIVER STONE When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. OLIVER STONE Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&... OLIVER STONE If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great.... OLIVER STONE I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. OLIVER STONE I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of... OLIVER STONE There's an electrical thing about movies. OLIVER STONE I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ... 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