we miss you poems

If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ~Rig Veda



Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman



When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork. ~Rick Budinich



Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. ~Dane Rudhyar



I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford



Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy



Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis. ~Tim Green



To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel



though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. ~e.e. cummings



Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ~Erica Jong



To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends. ~Edwin Lillie Miller, 1938, Explorations in Literature, about Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Sam)



We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria



If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky



You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. ~Rose Maccaulay



Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. ~Gustavo Adolfo Becquer



One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer