I enjoy quotes. As does the average person I think. But I have them strewn everywhere. on random pieces of paper, on notes in my my phone, saved as pictures on my computer. So I've decided to get myself a journal that I can write all my favorite quotes in. Until I can gather the time and money to go out and get myself one (because I want it to be nice) I'm going to be posting installments of quotes I love on here so that it's all nice and organized :] Enjoy!
Shine like fire,
That mirrors nothing
-"Nuances of a Theme by Williams" by Wallace Stevens
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart
Which grieving will not sweeten.
-"Another Weeping Woman" by Wallace Stevens
Men are more interesting in books
than they are in real life.
-Isola Pribby from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaper and Annie Barrows
(I don't agree with this any more, considering I've fallen in love. But it's still a good quote :] )
And after restoring someone's life I don't think
I have to be bloody religious to go where I need to go.
-Dr. Jawad, a plastic surgeon who operates on women in the Middle East who's husbands pour acid on their faces
What do people not want to talk about?
Soccer. Jazz. Infidelity!!!
-Jack Donagey 30 Rock (had to throw in a silly one :] )
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness.
That way is simply: Be happy.
-Zen & The Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
We must learn to live together,
or we will perish as fools.
-John Lewis
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
-"Unfortunate Coincidence" by Dorothy Parker
"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country 'tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beau-
tiful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
-"next to of course god america i" by E.E Cummings
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies.
-"She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon (Lord Byron)
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
-"When I Have Fears" by John Keats
How do I love the? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
-from Sonnets from the Portugues by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.
-"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
-Sonnet 71 by William Shakespeare
But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever moans in man.
-"Insensibility" by Wilfred Owen
I had a thought for no one's but your ears;
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the high old way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown
As weary-hearted as the hollow moon."
-"Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats
Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
-"The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
-"Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick
For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history
is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11
took to the Moon. It reads 'We came in peace for all mankind.'
As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of
conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated
ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
-Carl Sagan
Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
You are like
a fresh cup
of warm coffee,
first thing
in the morning.
I am tired;
weary with the burden
of long-closed eyes
and slumber, and
the prior day's exhaustion.
But if my day
begins with you
I know no task
can challenge me.
- I have no idea who this is by
sometimes i am alive because with
me her alert treelike body sleeps
which i will feel slowly sharpening
becoming distinct with love slowly,
who in my shoulder sinks sweetly teeth
until we shall attain the Springsmelling
intense large togethercoloured instant
the moment pleasantly frightful
when, her mouth suddenly rising, wholly
begins with mine fiercely to fool
(and from my thighs which shrug and pant
a murdering rain leapingly reaches the
upward singular deepest flower which she
carries in a gesture of her hips)
- or this one...
Someone asked me
what home was
and all I could think of
were the
stars
on the tip of your
tongue.
the
flowers
sprouting
from your mouth
the
roots
entwined in
the gaps
between your fingers
the ocean
echoing
inside of your
ribcage.
-this one just says EC so I kinda think it's E.E Cummings but I don't know
You are my sun,
my moon,
and all my stars.
-E.E Cummings
What comes easy won't last
What lasts won't come easy.
-Also no idea where this is from.
Hope you enjoyed some of them :]
Good night all!!
xxo taylor
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