"
Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut you more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few humans
Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.
"
Absolutely Clear by Shams al-Din Hafiz (via
Jared)
#Poetry
#Hafiz
#loneliness
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal."
Lord Byron
#poetry
#into the wild
#lord byron
"The story is never right without the trinity of chivalry, poetry, and love. Fates fought over by both sword and poem, and no victory is possible unless the two are together. No tribe has triumphed without a poet and no poet has triumphed unless defeated in love."
#poetry
#mahmoud darwish
#story
#love
"And when you step out of yourself, as if you were you, you look at yourself from a distance as if you were he: standing in the rain on a street crowded with pedestrians, a bouquet of red roses in your hand. You do not feel cold in your peculiar stance, you feel the chill of mockery. You wonder: Was it love or passion or lust? And you forget your emotion. You forget it and do not look for it. You are not hurt or regretful. You simply greet it from afar as it moves toward a distant memory that will not make you sleepless. A memory you control as you might control the VCR: you place the end at the beginning, or freeze the image according to the wishes of your mercury heart."
#poetry
#mahmoud darwish
#love
"But, there are hours of lonely musing,
Such as in evening silence come,
When, soft as birds their pinions closing,
The heart’s best feelings gather home.
Then in our souls there seems to languish
A tender grief that is not woe;
And thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish,
Now cause but some mild tears to flow."
#poetry
