Quotes, Aphorisms & Poems

For Contemplation, Aspiration &
Inspiration

​"Henceforth, I ask not good fortune-
      I myself am good fortune;
Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone      no more, need nothing-
Strong and content I travel the open road."
                                                          -Walt Whitman

"I tilt my hat anyway I choose." 
​Walt Whitman

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​"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
​                                           -Shakespeare                     

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​"Brevity is the soul of wit."
​Shakespeare

​"We know what we are,
But not what we may be."
                         -Shakespeare

​​"The thief left it behind:
The moon in my window."
                                            -Roykan

​"I carry the sun in a golden cup,
And the moon in a silver bag." 
​                         -William Butler Yeats
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​"Not "Revelation"-tis that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes."
                  -Emily Dickinson

​​"In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze- Amen"
                                 -Emily Dickinson

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​"Pull my daisy,
Tip my cup
All my doors are open."
          -Jack Kerouac

​"Silence is more musical than any song."
-Christina Rossetti
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​"Me
We!"
-Muhammed Ali

​"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."
    -Duke Ellington

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​"On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing."
-Issa

​"so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens."
-Wm. Carlos Williams
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​"What is uttered from the heart alone,
will win the hearts of others to your own."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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​The blackbird whirled in the autumn wind,
It was a small part of the pantomime."
                                    -Wallace Stevens