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Quotes by Poet
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."
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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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"A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!"
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"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
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"There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in it's appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering."
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
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"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance."
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"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
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"A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride."
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"Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it."
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"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
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"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."
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"Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn."
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.""
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
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"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
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"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
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"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
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"Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın, akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' Öncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk’ın ayağıdır; sevgili değildir. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir."
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"Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man."
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"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart."
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"If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections."
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"I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired."
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"I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."
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"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
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"Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."
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"The transformation of the world takes place in your heart."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."
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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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