Poesia Quotes

#1. What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

Pablo Neruda

#2. Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire
poesia Metamorfosi, I. Luna

Derek Walcott

#3. I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.

Jack LaLanne

#4. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

J. Robert King

#5. Be like the bird who,
Resting in his flight
On a twig too slight,
Feels it bend beneath him
Yet sings,
Knowing he has wings.

Victor Hugo

#6. There are many more kind people than not-so-kind people, said Mma Ramotswe.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. No one dies from loneliness, but I really hope you would die alone. Regretting every moment of your life for letting me go

Mohamed Ghazi

#8. Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Lloyd Alexander

#9. Don't drink away your dreams; drink towards them.

Bauvard

#10. The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

William C. Bryant

#11. My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

Roselyne Bosch

#12. Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking to catch up with all my dreams.

Jean Hegland

#13. Our modern conception of the average person is not a mathematical truth but a human invention, created a century and a half ago by two European scientists to solve the social problems of their era.

Todd Rose