Category: poet
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It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Horace
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Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‘Run like hell and all of fire.’ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.
Maya Angelou
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya Angelou
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Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My childhood began, as everybody’s childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo