Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns
Neil Gaiman
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There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot;
To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;
...
THOMAS NOEL We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.
and changes
its composition.
SANOBER KHAN In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a...
PABLO NERUDA Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me.
Stones and sticks break only...
RUBY REDFORT Who really owns the Earth?
Corporations? Governments?
Charity Organizations?
Or... ANTHONY T. HINCKS What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Di...
OREO QUEEN He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles...
LAO TZU I think whosoever is faithful to Allah Almighty,
His/Her faithfulness can never be questioned!<...
TEHREEM RAHAT Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
W...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA That old man over there
Is selling trinkets made of stones
That old woman the entire world...
AVIJEET DAS Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON WHAT IS TRUTH?
Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't bloc...
BOB DYLAN This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There...
NORA SAKAVIC Polyphemus stiffened. "Who said that?"
"Nobody!" Annabeth yelled.
That got exa...
RICK RIORDAN If only we were not that seedling of Creation,
Of Earth and its generations,
If only we ha...
ADONIS A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were hi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I saw his face change.
His eyes widen.
He lunged at me.
I wouldn't let go.
We...
KAMI GARCIA I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me STASIA WARD KEHOE Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibr...
KRISTEN HENDERSON Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy a...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON I’m not letting you go, Fiona,” he murmured before brushing his lips over hers. She tasted like ...
KATIE REUS Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of...
JEANIENE FROST Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,
that soft summer morning
round a turning in the...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Sun Going South
In late sunshine I wander troubled.
Restless I wander in autumn ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Each October I walk into the woods
looking for bones: rabbit skulls,
a grackle spine, the ...
CHARLES RAFFERTY The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy."
<...
JEANIENE FROST THE BARROW
In this high field strewn with stones
I walk by a green mound,
It...
ANTHONY THWAITE And his eyes will only know darkness,
His ears will only know hatred,
His hands will onl...
ANONYMOUS Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I must confess, that my
heart is like a frozen lake,
only pretends to be firm,
to sh...
AKASH MANDAL Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?
His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing ...
THEODORE ROETHKE The little boy who never grew up,
He trapped the frog and kills the rat,
He flew a kite, t...
QUETZAL The Master's Sacred Knowledge.
Love is the treasure you should seek!
The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief ins...
ANDREA GIBSON The shades of night were falling fast,
As though an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, '...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)
He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?...
JEANIENE FROST Sydney, I'm so happy to see you again. If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know. And...
RICHELLE MEAD I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE I can't believe I'm here,
sitting with all my friends.
There's No-one!
And there's No...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS This Stone
He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I may seem secure. I could have it made . . .
You might think you see a lucky man who made the g...
BILLY SQUIER Only after many trials for strength,
Only when all stimulants fail,
Does the aspiring soul EDGAR LEE MASTERS Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
In the cradle a child is screaming.
An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and n...
E.E. CUMMINGS He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never change...
MARTHA MEDEIROS I believe that we are who we choose to be.
Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g...
BARRY MANILOW I mean, have you ever imagined
the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL In your hands
The dog, the donkey, surely they know
They are alive.
Who would ...
MARY OLIVER Radiant Day is slowly fading;
and the evening calm and still.
Gazing through the oak and willo...
SARA LOUSISA OBERHOLTZER I mean, have you ever imagined
the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL But for now, happiness throws stones.
It guards itself.
I wait.
MARKUS ZUSAK Sense how
Even the smooth stones ache
With stories of their own
In the shuddering lig...
SCOTT HASTIE We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live with...
IRVING TOWNSEND THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
SUZY KASSEM When
When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
MARY OLIVER Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Saying of the Prophet
Food
Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
IDRIES SHAH On building homes for fallen angels:
When I was small - I sought a home,
a place to ...
WILL ADVISE What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ...
WILFRED OWEN What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only...
WILFRED OWEN The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over...
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING So, what can I do?” I asked.
“Annoy?”
I gave him a hurt look.
DANNIKA DARK Invisible
She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with d...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO So this talk, or touch if I were there,
Should work its effortless gadgetry of love,
Like ...
MICHAEL DONAGHY and anyway it’s just the same old story --
a few people just trying,
one way or another,...
MARY OLIVER [As a result, Nagin himself has become part of the debate over how best to
rebuild the devasta...
MARK LEWIS In the mirage of mirror
Difficult it is to distinguish between truth and fake
Remove that ...
NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
thou...
MARY OLIVER Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a preci...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a prec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And ...
SRI CHINMOY In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER I can't understand
why dark northern soldiers
and light ones
are seperated into di...
MARGARITA ENGLE Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.
TREVOR NOAH Die slowly
He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,...
PABLO NERUDA One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
a...
MARY OLIVER Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.
CATHERINE FISHER A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. ...
D.M. RAVER A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle...
VERA NAZARIAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
DHAMMAPADA Abyssinias
"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: A huge four-foote...
HENRY N. BEARD And do I ask, wherefore my heart
Falters, oppressed with unknown needs?
Why some inexpli...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, y...
TOM SCHULMAN When I look up at Heaven,
I see the souls of those who died
Beaming down at me,
Wanti...
SUZY KASSEM
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NEIL GAIMAN You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
NEIL GAIMAN There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
NEIL GAIMAN There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
NEIL GAIMAN We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN