~ Always ~

I am not jealous

of what came before me. 

Come with a man

on your shoulders,

come with a hundred men in your hair,

come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet,

come like a river

full of drowned men

which flows down to the wild sea,

to the eternal surf, to Time! 

Bring them all

to where I am waiting for you;

we shall always be alone,

we shall always be you and I

alone on earth,

to start our life! 

~ Pablo Neruda ~

All About Love....

Absence

I have scarcely left you
When you go in me, crystalline,
Or trembling,
Or uneasy, wounded by me
Or overwhelmed with love, as
when your eyes
Close upon the gift of life
That without cease I give you.

My love,
We have found each other
Thirsty and we have
Drunk up all the water and the
Blood,
We found each other
Hungry
And we bit each other
As fire bites,
Leaving wounds in us.

But wait for me,
Keep for me your sweetness.
I will give you too
A rose. 

~ Pablo Neruda

The Street

Here is a long and silent street.

I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall

and rise, and I walk blind, my feet

trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves.

Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves:

if I slow down, he slows;

if I run, he runs I turn : nobody.

Everything dark and doorless,

only my steps aware of me,

I turning and turning among these corners

which lead forever to the street

where nobody waits for, nobody follows me,

where I pursue a man who stumbles

and rises and says when he sees me : nobody. 

~Octavio Paz~ 

More About Life ....

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
~ Buddha

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill


“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet



“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
~ André Gide, Autumn Leaves



Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
~ Oscar Wilde


Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi


We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
~ William Shakespeare


We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama


The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~ Aristotle


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

All about Life....

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
                                       

                                         ~ Oscar Wilde


“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
                                      

                                        ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
                                       

                              ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero


 

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
                                       

                                               ~Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets


 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
                                       
                    ~ Kahlil Gibran


 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
                                       

                                  ~Henry David Thoreau

 

Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
                                       

               ~Buddha

Simple truths..

Death is the destination we all share.
No one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be,
Because Death is very likely the
single best invention of life.
               ~ Steve Jobs


All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts,
his acts being seven ages.
                  ~William Shakespeare

Holding on to anger is like
grasping a hot coal with the
intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
                     ~Buddha

A dreamer is one who can only
find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he
sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
                      ~Oscar Wilde

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,
but an escape from emotion;
it is not the expression of personality,
but an escape from personality.
But, of course,
only those who have personality and
Emotions know what it means to
want to escape from these things.
                        ~T. S. Eliot