Poems List

If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.

The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

No, a proof is a proof...

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Allowing God to have His way in our lives is the greatest blessing we can ever enjoy!

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Never say the sky is your limit. Rather, say it's your starting point. For, there are footprints already in the moon i.e. you can break the shackles of limitations. ~Emeasoba George.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I'm assigned to globally and positively impact lives/to be a wonder to the world and eventually to be celebrated globally even by the posterity. ~Emeasoba George.

Earn but don't burn.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Your/the ability to withstand/overcome pressures/predicaments is what truly makes you/anyone indomitable. ~Emeasoba George.

Only a loveful person realizes that no human is despicable. Yes of course, until you are loveful you can't/won't realize that. ~Emeasoba George.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.