Steadfast Seas and Mountains

The lofty mountains and the seas,
Being mountains, being seas,
Both exist and are real.
But frail as flowers are the lives of men,
Passing phantoms of this world.


Reiko Chiba

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People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas, AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,
The f...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Stars, Seas, Mountains, Bridges, Roads and Tunnels Are Manmade.
IRFAN HAIDAR
Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains
DEE BROWN
Troubles run.
Fast and far . . .
Past the mountains
Behind a star.
BYRD BAYLOR
Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man. STEPHEN CRANE
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
JOHN WEBSTER
In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend...
I'm gonna be your friend.
In...
BOB MARLEY
Though mountains melt and oceans burn,

The gifts of love shall still return.
ROSAMUND HODGE
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The real flight of this hawk is impending.

Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.<...
ARUNIMA SINHA
In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
W.H. AUDEN
I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
Penelope

In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the...
DOROTHY PARKER
The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I am lost among the seas of fate and time
But at least I have love.
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride," EDGAR ALLAN POE
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS
moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry.
SANOBER KHAN
stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his sh...
SANOBER KHAN
I ‘am shaggy as rivers,
forests and mountains
My eyes see the universe
natural a...
JOHN E. WORDSLINGER
Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
kee...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE
Feeling LOW?
Go on mountains.
PRAJAKTA MHADNAK
All material in nature,
the mountains and the streams and the air and we,
are made of Ligh...
LOUIS KAHN
Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...
THE HOUSTON TIMES
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run...
W.B. YEATS
In this particular tub, two knees jut up
like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise
on a...
SYLVIA PLATH
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
An...
JACK GILBERT
The shadows now so long do grow,
That brambles like tall cedars show,
Molehills seem mountai...
CHARLES COTTON
Sea-fever

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And a...
JOHN MASEFIELD
do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of sho...
JOAQUIN MILLER
If your mind can move mountains
and swallow gods,
Why does it worry with helpless yesterda...
KAMAND KOJOURI
I
have a face like a washrag. I sing
love songs and carry steel.

I would rather...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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And nodding by...
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With Faith As Small As A Mustard Seed, Then You Can Move Mountains...
VIOLA SHIPMAN
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding b...
W.B. YEATS
The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.
ACKSHAT DEOLI
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON
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The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER
In your hands

The dog, the donkey, surely they know
They are alive.
Who would ...
MARY OLIVER
I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the ...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the gl...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actio...
LAO TZU
Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
More than being human, we need peace and love.

More than being strong and capable, we nee...
NURUDEEN USHAWU
Bright Star

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone s...
JOHN KEATS
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

K...
DR. SEUSS
Re-engrav'd time after time
Ever in their youthful prime
My designs unchang'd remain
...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.

The world is sacred....
LAO TZU
Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills alon...
GEORGE MEREDITH
Oh land of farms and green hills mild
Once formed by giants rough and wild
With massive pa...
SHANNON HALE
Bilbo’s Last Song

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;<...
ALEXANDER POPE
He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road. HOMER
There are hermit so...
SAM WALTER FOSS
Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, w...
CAITLYN SIEHL
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the princip...
LAO TZU
Sermon of the Mounts

Matthew 5

AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
God abides in men"

"God abides in men,
These are men who are simple,
they are f...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll

Nine months he sailed the wine-red sea...
MARGARET ATWOOD
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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We try a new drug, a new combination
of drugs, and suddenly
I fall into my life again
JANE KENYON
For all these stars,
nothing is new.
They’ve seen all kinds of wars
and miracles, t...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Men's lives are short .
The hard man and his cruelties will be
Cursed behind his back and ...
ROBERT FITZGERALD
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
PHILIP FRENEAU
 Hearts are feeling                                       
Baez and Dyla...
BRENT M. JONES
This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI
The Manger of Incidentals "

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe.
...
JACK GILBERT
Words
are powerful
forces of nature.

they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN
Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how ...
JOEL OSTEEN
We wander in our thousands over the
face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
as architect of choosing...
choose. to. live.
awakened. entirely. wholly.

wildl...
LASHAUN MIDDLEBROOKS COLLIER
When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring...
MATSUO BASHō
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
PABLO NERUDA
your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There are people.

There are stories.

The people think they shape the stories, ...
ALAN MOORE
I have many lovers.
Where ever I look, I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
ANSUL NOOR
Aedion touched her shoulder. "Welcome home, Aelin."

A land of towering mountains-the Stag...
SARAH J. MAAS
i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intellig...
RUPI KAUR
Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
have killed him – you and I...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
What to Accept


The fact of mountains. The actuality
Of any stone — by kickin...
THOMAS M. DISCH
In this world . . .

It's Heaven when:
The French are chefs
The British a...
HIDEKAZ HIMARUYA
Who's that?

(Silence.)

Who's there?

(Silence.)

God?
ALI SMITH
In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
ROMAN PAYNE
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy la...
WILLIAM BLAKE
there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI

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