Quotes on living

a finished poem, song you’ve turned into. a detached human being, maki — Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost Love: Berlin Stories Leaving & Arriving

Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving Arriving Charlotte Eriksson
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world enough, time — Andrew Marvell, Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
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world enough, time — Andrew Marvell, Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
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Say them,say down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmon — Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems
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Don’t sign namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold meanings,trust tear — Paul Celan, Glottal Stop

Glottal Stop Paul Celan
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Ye better balladsThat ever sung said;For ye living poems,And rest dead — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Birds Passage

Birds of Passage Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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makes us leave love best?What inside us keeps erasing itselfWhen need — Charles Wright, Littlefoot: A Poem

Charles Wright Littlefoot: A Poem
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wanted past go away, wantedto leave it, like another country; wantedmy — Mary Oliver, Dream Work

Dream Work Mary Oliver
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cruel age deflected me,like a river course.Strayed familiar shores,my — Anna Akhmatova, Complete Poems Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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dull pause, make end,To rust unburnish’d, shine use!As tho’ breathe li — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

Alfred Tennyson Ulysses
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