Only poetry

I took wild honey from the plants.
I took salt from the waters, I took light from the sky.
I have only poetry to give you.

~Jorge De Lima

Begin

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

 

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

 

~Albert Camus

Live

Live to the point of tears.

 

~Albert Camus

Not enough

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

 

~Hans Christian Andersen

You can

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

 

~Stephen King

Wish

“Don’t wish me happiness
I don’t expect to be happy all the time…
It’s gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness

Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.

 

~Leo Tolstoy

A void

“Under the influence of various vague emotions, an awareness of life passing by, a desire for novelty, she’d forced herself to reach a certain point, to look beyond it – and there she glimpsed not even an abyss, but a void…or formless chaos.”

 

– Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children

 

 

Poetry

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

 

~Voltaire