#poets

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping. ↗

— Kate Christensen

#kate-christensen #marriage #midle-age #poets #the-astral

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #haiku #haikus #humanity #hybrids

Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of yore. ↗

— Emma Ghent Curtis

#experience #poem #poetry #poets #youth

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#music #poetry #poets #beauty

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#management-and-leadership #poetry #poets #business

God is busy and has no time for you. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #god #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. ↗

— Aberjhani

#encouragement #famous-poets #famous-quotes #fear #inspiration

Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud- Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? ↗

— William Knox

#mortality #philosophy #poem #poetry #poets

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity." Beckett ↗

— Beckett

#philosophy #poetry #poets #intelligence

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dream #dreams #fairy-tale #fairy-tales #literature