..poetry's most powerful lines ever written...

reginagrace

Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.
~ Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It

hunny_sapik

Because I'm a Jane Eyre kind of girl

golden_rose

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
-'Still I Rise', Maya Angelou-



In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
- Bertolt Brecht, In Dark Times-


Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
-The Old Astronomer,Sarah Williams-



Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-Out of the night that covers me ,William Ernest Henley-

mizzy

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

mizzy

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

veYron

Aku (Chairil Anwar)
Kalau sampai waktuku
‘Ku mau tak seorang ‘kan merayu
Tidak juga kau
Tak perlu sedu sedan itu
Aku ini binatang jalang
Dari kumpulannya terbuang
Biar peluru menembus kulitku
Aku tetap meradang menerjang
Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari
Berlari
Hingga hilang pedih peri
Dan aku akan lebih tidak perduli
Aku mau hidup seribu tahun lagi

mizzy

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"

Regina Bretts, 45 Life Lessons

IxoraP

I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
- Birches by Robert Frost

eddlala

Magic In Your Bones

beken

TAK SEPADAN
Aku kira:
Beginilah nanti jadinya
Kau kawin, beranak dan berbahagia
Sedang aku mengembara serupa Ahasveros

Dikutuk-sumpahi Eros
Aku merangkaki dinding buta
Tak satu juga pintu terbuka

Jadi baik juga kita padami
Unggunan api ini
Karena kau tidak ‘kan apa-apa
Aku terpanggang tinggal rangka

Chairil anwar

eddlala

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost-

eddlala

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate"

-Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare-

red_mist

Our Greatest Fear

it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson

golden_rose

sorry Mod. tertukar pulak dgn thread qoutes ttg reading..


-Liittle Red Cap,Carol Ann Duffy

Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head

Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood

But then I was young.  

golden_rose

-Wild Geese,Mary Oliver-

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have let the soft animal of your body, love what it loves

groundfloor

Wow...wow..wow...mampu baca je

reginagrace

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song,
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong

~ W.H Auden

reginagrace

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.










[size=14.580000877380371px]- Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

Lena-lovecraft

i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is  you
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
           -e.e Cummings-

Lena-lovecraft

He was my North, my South, my East and West.
My working week and my Sunday rest.
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
~W.H. Auden