Poems List

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Life is most likely not to augur well with anyone who is unwilling to discover and fulfill his/her destiny. Therefore, dare to discover/fulfill your God-given destiny.

“From Conrad Aiken to Flannery O’Connor to Midnight, Savannah has always been a literary town. But certainly one of her most consistently excellent—and consistently underrated—writers is the man known as Aberjhani. Known for his nationally published short stories and poetry Aberjhani has received critical acclaim for his ability to encapsulate the Southern black experience in a sensitive and poignant way that’s accessible to readers of any race or region.” --from All That Jazz

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Are you loaded for bear? Every human ought to be loaded for bear i.e. you've got to be fully prepared for confrontations/challenges anytime/anywhere. Because, life is bound to unfold diverse confrontations/challenges even when you least expect them.

Opposition is true friendship.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Adversity is designed to eventually promote you never to demote you, strenghten you never to weaken you and make you never to mar you.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

If you can get rid of limitations off your mind. Then, you will surely/sooner or later break the shackles of limitations and as well go to many places in your lifetime.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

It takes only an unyielding faith to persist and persevere even to the bitter end i.e. to the very end in spite of challenges/predicaments.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

Anybody who is hateful is most likely to be resentful (feeling/portraying bitterness/indignation). But the reverse is directly the case with anyone who is loveful. So, be loveful for life and never hateful.

L'importante è perseverare, perseverare è diabolico, l'importante è essere diabolici.

If you don't like your ideas - quit having them!

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.