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Listen to me. When a man wakes, he wakes wanting. He wakes hard and rude and aching with need.” He... TESSA DARE A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
THE THREE LAWS OF ALLYou are never to worship a living soul,
Except for three entit...
SUZY KASSEM
RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
it's not his bodythat changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
DAVID LEVITHAN
CAUSE AND EFFECTYou can give a man who has never given you a good word,
Volumes of ...
SUZY KASSEM
THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNERThe man in the corner
Is dying with words
He's crying...
SUZY KASSEM
...feel the fierce way desiretourniquets itself around you and
clings
Clubland...
CLINT CATALYST
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains...
SOPHOCLES God abides in men"
"God abides in men,
These are men who are simple,
they are f...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS
The poet dreams of the classroomI dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
MARY OLIVER
A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
Having realiz...
LAO TZU
He is deaf, and keen to accept,any economical operation,
that will correct his situation....
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
MARY OLIVER
You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Follow, poet, follow rightTo the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
W.H. AUDEN
A POCKET-SIZED GIRLHe keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm ...
COCO J. GINGER
When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easilyhappen that the only thing his...
HERMANN HESSE
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.
How badly i...
JAMES FREY
BRITANNUS (shocked).Caesar: this is not proper.
THEODOTUS (outraged).
How!
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW From CATS ARE KIND
"A man said to the universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'Excelle...
HENRY N. BEARD I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to ...
WALTER D. WINTLE Little sister don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister...
U2 The past, the present, the future –
The floodgates of time wait for Her footsteps
Yet S...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE Everyone says he can't run the bases, and he can't play left field, ... Obviously he's not the playe...
PETER MAGOWAN You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN
King of The RoadTrailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, n...
ROGER MILLER
When Hitler marchedacross the Rhine
To take the land of France,
La dame de fer deci...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
What's a Dullahan?''He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.'
'Headless?'...
DEREK LANDY
THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to lear...
SUZY KASSEM
The Blue Birdfrom The Last Night of the Earth Poems
there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Father! My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us childr...
EDGAR A. GUEST
WHAT IS TRUTH?Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM
The DoorsThe End
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my ...
JIM MORRISON MAN: Do you have black and white film posters?
BOOKSELLER: Yes, we do. They’re over here.
JEN CAMPBELL
The cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten"Till he stirs a little and begins to purr--
He doesn'...
RANDALL JARRELL He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was
IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a vir...
SUZY KASSEM
I have a dream!To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter...
OSCAR WILDE
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."Conversatio...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound
forever
susceptible
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness....
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why <...
E.E. CUMMINGS
How many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must o...
BOB DYLAN Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass be...
KANSAS (BAND)
He was inspired, and yet he wants books!He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON She grew tired of shielding her body,
For societal expectation and propriety,
Double stand...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
When a man is in love how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover ...
نزار قباني Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam...
CANDICE GILMER Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.”
�...
JULIE GARWOOD
Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes;
See in darkness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire
go up in a roar
All recog...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS All life-forms are innocent, but man is the greatest innocent life-form that the universe has ever p...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN
Which the Chicken and Which the Egg?He drinks because she scolds, he thinks;
She th...
OGDEN NASH A Book I Can Put Down
I’m halfway through
and I’ve gotten used
to the way i...
ANTONIA CLARK
Constantly risking absurdityand death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Hold fast To the law
Of the last
Cold tome,
Where the earth
Of the truth
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
THE CIVIL WARS
Greater in battlethan the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who w...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA If you think you're beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to w...
WALTER D. WINTLE
Every man should believe in something.If not..
he would doubt everything, even himself.
TOBA BETA
Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i... JOHN FOWLES
A BoatO beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
t...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter l...
OSCAR WILDE
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter loo...
OSCAR WILDE
Are you, are youComing to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS LONG LIVE...
This country is but a wish of the spirit, a counter-sepulcher.
<...
RENé CHAR
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
you are a horse running aloneand he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
WARSAN SHIRE And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover i...
KATE TEMPEST A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silenc...
YUNUS EMRE
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this gr... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
To harden the earththe rocks took charge:
instantly
they grew wings:
the rocks<...
PABLO NERUDA
I don't think you realize who you're dealing with."The man clicked his tongue, "If you w...
SARAH J. MAAS
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN So if you care to find me/
Look to the western sky/
As someone told me lately/
Everyo...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart."Am I the on...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him ou...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
ON THE DAY I DIEOn the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI
Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)“My life is but a weaving
Between my ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?"I believe so," he said
Are you go...
MITCH ALBOM
I heard of a manwho says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
wome...
LEONARD COHEN Edges
I am a child throwing rocks into the stream.
Challenging the rushing water.
Rai...
TOSHA MICHELLE ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON
Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.
To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and s...
TOBA BETA
The Lord builds up Jerusalem,And gathers nations to his Name:
His mercy melts the stubborn so...
ISAAC WATTS
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to form...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<...
L'PONI BALDWIN
I that in heill was and gladnèssAm trublit now with great sickness
And feblit with infir...
WILLIAM DUNBAR
