Poems List

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

If you want to know something, ask my kids. They think they know everything.

“As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.”

It never ceases to baffle me at how one's more willing to accept the unacceptable as long as it can be rationalized

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

Its time for someone to stand up and say "Stop spending all our hard earned tax dollars".

The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Money talks . . . It says you're cheap.

The unintelligent have no rights to own anything let alone their own thoughts which they have no choice but to hand over to anyone. Chaos almost certainly ensues in such a case

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

‎Con esperanzas de todo, e ilusiones de nada

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Routine is the death to heroism.

To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.

Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Nothing is more relentless or as dispassionate as time