Life Poetry Quotes

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Songs of myself
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.

This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe.”
― Walt Whitman

“Songs of myself
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into new tongue.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,..”
― Walt Whitman

“Song of myself
With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for
conquer'd and slain persons.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit
in which they are won.

I beat and pound for the dead,
I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

Vivas to those who have fail'd!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!”
― Walt Whitman

“THREE BASIC TRUTHS

Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death.
While truth, love, and knowledge –
Are boundless.

Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Life is short,
Forgive a lot,
Help plenty,
Love like crazy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“You may think your achievements,
Are the crown of your life.
But it's your failures,
That make you shine bright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Nerves make us individual,
Sweat makes us sapient.
Brain gives us power,
Heart makes us sentient.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Ask not, where you begin!
Ask instead, where you belong!
Belonging is the beginning,
Where you belong, there you're born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Love is but a record of time,
Time is but a record of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“You ask me, is there a perfect soul!
I say, imperfect souls chase perfection,
perfect souls wield their imperfection
as their greatest strength.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Conscience is the cement
that settles character in place.
Character is the cement
that settles civilization in place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Step out of the picture frames,
into the sunlit pastors of life.
How long will you worship the painting,
isn't it time to take the scenic hike!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“When all are eager for the sun to rise,
I grab the night and conjure up dawn.
Leave no corner of mindland unharvested,
Struggle isn't over till gloom turns to morn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Good poetry isn't born,
When everything makes sense.
Good poetry is born,
When nothing makes sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Life's purpose is realization of life,
Beyond the narrowness of yesterday.
Instead of waiting for a fictitious future,
Life is whatever you make of it today.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Life is but a laughing matter,
Better die laughing than live crying.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Let all pride be drowned in the depth of tears,
Let all pomp be crushed by the load of pain.
Let all counterfeit self become distant memory,
Let life be identified by your one chosen lane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Life rooted in mind,
Mind rooted in spine,
Spine rooted in heart,
Heart rooted in kind -
That's how civilization unfolds,
That's how human existence unfolds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“When brain stops,
When heart stops,
What is left of you?

When eyes fail,
When memory fails,
What is left of you?

When your last molecule
has merged with nature,
What is left of you?

That's what you've really achieved -
Testament to the fact that,
there ever was a you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Every spine holds a backbone,
But peer pressure turns it into jello.
Every body holds a conscientious being,
But society conditions it to be callow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Time is a slimy wimy thing,
Life is a blessy messy thing.
Love is a happy crappy thing,
Mind is a mighty fighty thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Own your sorrow, own your tears -
Own your angst, own your fears.
These are not your enemy,
Use 'em to empower integrity.
We decide, they break or make us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Coldness is curse,
Warmth is the cure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Live by body,
Die by body.
Live by mind,
Never die.

Death comes but once,
Life comes every day.
Now tell me what's braver,
Spirit of life or fear of death!

There is no afterlife,
because there is no after,
there is only life now.
To live life conquering fear,
is the ultimate divine vow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Death comes but once, life comes every day.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“I am life, I am light -
What is death to cause me fright!
I eat death for breakfast,
suffering for supper.
Death affects body, not mindlight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“The Land of Heart”

On the land of my heart
Where once seeds were sown and it rained,
My harvest turned to dust,
And my dwelling shattered.

Those who used to reside within me,
Who used to be mine,
Neither their names were spoken
Nor did any trace remain.

The secrets hidden in my heart,
The untold stories that were there,
That book burned down,
And became its tomb.”
― Janid Kashmiri

“In the beginning we were dust,
in the end we'll be dust,
it's the journey in between,
that makes it all worth the fuss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets