poetry

While I have my own unique character traits, like many others, I have an inquiring mind. Today I have a few questions.

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Do you ever wonder what your role is in the grand scheme of things?

Do you ever wonder where the world you live in is headed or lose your own direction?

Do you ever misplace your muse and inspiration to keep going?

Do you ever stop to look and listen to the Universe when she talks to you?

Are you at peace with yourself, with the cards you’ve been dealt, and with the time you’re living in?

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If you’re finding yourself in need of some inspiration right now, keep reading. Feel free to come back to this post whenever you notice doubts trying to weasel themselves in where they don’t belong.

The following poem was written by myself, and the first two quotes below it are also mine. Further down, you’ll find a compilation of quotes by others that I have always found uplifting.

Let’s Talk

You are my fellow human and muse;

I—the part of you that’s most often misused.

I can only be a reflection

Of your perspective and your perception;

You see, my expressions, my motives, and my intentions

Require your undivided attention;

So that we can avoid misimpressions and misinterpretations

Since our circumstances and words have a few different dimensions.

We want to respond but often react;

Leaving the soul shaken and the ego intact.

Please,

Don’t act like you know me

Or worse, like you own me;

A glimpse is never enough to unfold me.

Detelina Stamatova. All Rights Reserved.

“One is either free or one is not. The concept of freedom is an absolute. After all one cannot be moderately dead or moderately loved or moderately free. It must always remain a matter of either or.” Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley). The Duchess. 2008

“The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe.” Edward Walker (William Hurt). The Village. 2004

“Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.” Eli Khamarov. The Shadow Zone

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.” Wallace Stevens. Opus Posthumous. 1957

“A man is a little thing when he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat.” Robert Frost

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” Robert Frost

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost

“Poetry is a man’s rebellion against being what he is.” James Branch Cabell

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” Leonard Cohen

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.” Thomas Gray

“I don’t create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.” Edith Södegran

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” Joseph Joubert

“Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.” Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like timber, it stepped itself in the forests.” Pablo Neruda

“She said, ‘I’m afraid of falling…’ and he whispered, ‘I have wings.’” Harlem Shake

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness.” Nietzsche

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, and attempts what is above its strength.” Thomas A. Kempis

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” Victor Hugo

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” Rumi

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu

“I love you and because I love you I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” Pietro Aretino

“Love takes off the masks we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Arthur Baldwin

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” Anonymous

“Today I caught myself smiling for no reason… then I realized I was thinking about you.” Anonymous

“The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.” Anais Nin

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin

“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” Anonymous

“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.” Shing Xiong

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde

“The truth is always pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde

“You can bend it and twist it. You can misuse it and abuse it. But even God cannot change the truth.” Michael Levi

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei

Finally, please remember that you are the only one responsible for your own choices and their consequences.

To You and Your Success!