Share Your Favorite Quotes/Poetry

[philly]

The Winds of Time

Seek the wonder of life and love
For it lasts but a short time
Open your heart to the unknown
Though it may bring fear or pain
Believe that Creator will guide you
For there are grand rewards within mystery

Blackhawk

[Drywall]

"When you get to a fork in the road.........take it."

[kenmar]

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

Yogi Bear

[Seascamp]

Philly?.

For six days thou shalt labor and do all thou art able and on the seventh, holy stone the decks and scrape the cable. From Two years before the Mast.

I shall touch the rocks and autumn leaves and things and things, feel the sea breeze then no more thoughts.
Robinson Jeffers :ek:

First law of holes: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

First law of moderation: All things in moderation, including moderation.


First law of education: We learn more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing at all.


Second law of education: We learn less and less about more and more until we know absolutely nothing about everything.

Scamp

[janecallanan]

Janie's Hope
As the moon reflects the sun
Do you see the intensity of your love
Reflecting back from my face?

When you fix your eyes on mine
Do you see the jewels of a king
Bestowed upon one so ordinary?

That one as colorless as a servant
Could be made to overtake
The brilliance of the genteel!

What can be restored to you
Beyond the reflection of your heart
Which has made me transfigured?

Is to love you, alone
Enough laurel for your brow
To enchant your heart and grace?

Jane R Callanan

[janecallanan]

Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement; for even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[philly]

I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce
by Emily Dickinson

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, -the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

[philly]

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."

And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:

When love beckons to you follow him,

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him,

Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran

[philly]

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

Khalil Gibran

[philly]

Jane, I most enjoyed reading your poetry. Do you have anymore to share?

Seascamp, Ken and Drywall, all of you are quite the characters. I liked your little adages. thx