the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
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who is
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and
magnificent
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No ti...
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At last from the clouds of the table above;
...
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He described her mouth as full of ashes.
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The dead man touch'd me from the past,
And all at once ...
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He just looked at her. Cha...
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I offer the universe my love
I offer the universe my peace
...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
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prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
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Don’t
be caught up in yo...
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When indifferent, the eye tak...
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Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the...
ROMAN PAYNE Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
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DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Tonight I Can Write
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for e...
PABLO NERUDA When sad she brings the thunder
And her tears, they bring the rain
When ill she feeds a...
ALETHEA KONTIS Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example,'The night is shattered
an...
PABLO NERUDA Scenes from the Playroom
Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with a...
R.S. GWYNN You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
AVIJEET DAS Do I dare disturb the universe?
Yes, I do, I do. I think.
Jerry suddenly und...
ROBERT CORMIER My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the...
ROMAN PAYNE Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
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Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
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ROBERT FANNEY I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the un...
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From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gi...
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century, has analyzed everything divine hande...
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now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
bu...
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in an appletree at Chartres
And Saint Joan burn
at the Bella U...
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We have no time to stand and star...
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To think your wretched Self so singular!
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KAMAND KOJOURI You're a rare breed, Richard d'Alencon."
She didn't know the half of it.
Unabl...
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And how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how muc...
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Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe fo...
GEORGE STERLING I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the...
R.C. GIBBONS over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn’t keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin s...
MARISSA MEYER What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
JACK KEROUAC MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED
It is impossible for my mother to do even
the simplest...
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What is the hindrance to moving on?
Why in lov...
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to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of dou...
OMAR KHAYYáM I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the beginning..
when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all,
there was a ki...
TOBA BETA RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING
The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'
'Yes,' said Harry.
'You ca...
J.K. ROWLING Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in ...
C.S. LEWIS Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil.
Her chest ached...
SARAH J. MAAS So that the Universe felt love,
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been tu...
DANTE ALIGHIERI My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds;
no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <...
AESCHYLUS A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe:
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I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON Duende
I can't remember her name.
It's not as though I've been in bed
with that...
JACK GILBERT The maiden with her wheel of old
Sat by the fire to spin,
While lightly through her carefu...
MADELINE S. BRIDGES later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
a...
WARSAN SHIRE The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
ROMAN PAYNE Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-
of turning silence
into elo...
SANOBER KHAN He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civ...
EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is n...
LAO TZU Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER TRINA:
I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world.
Their smile, their smile's their...
WILLIAM FINN MOM
Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY Storms,
those whirlwinds and symphonies
in the sky,
nourish her midnight soul
an...
MELODY LEE It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY When the sun shines, plants are happy.
When plants grow, animals are happy.
When animals f...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?”
“What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black e...
JIM BUTCHER During the course of my career, I have been
shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerfu...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN She made broken look beautiful
and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe ARIANA DANCU Is it a world in the making
that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being
PAUL DERMéE The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place.
JANDY NELSON Through all this world strode Vishnu:
thrice his foot he planted,
and the whole world was ...
VEDA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we l...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisi...
T.S. ELIOT I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and sing...
KAMAND KOJOURI Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paak...
VINCENT LOWRY The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning
my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN Hemingway is overrated,
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth ...
DAVE MATTHES The Garden
En robe de parade.
- Samain
Like a skein of loose silk...
EZRA POUND If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”
“And this is exactly what I mean.”<...
DEREK LANDY Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Lo...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .
And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad...
JOHN GREEN Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON Nobody rules the world.
We may take care of planet earth
as a harmonious part in our unive...
PETRA HERMANS She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
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with asses that forgo...
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Emergency purposes only
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Z. ...
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and how you gave me
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one of the mos...
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...
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como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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than being alone
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to the
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they have nothing to struggle
for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI