From Rumi: “Patience is not sitting and waiting; it is seeing the end in the beginning.”
Tag Archives: poetry
Quote of the day 11/20/25
From Matsuo Basho: “It was with awe That I beheld Fresh leaves, green leaves, Bright in the sun”
Quote of the day 11/02/25
From Dogen: “To be in harmony with the hardship of the world is enlightenment.”
Quote of the day 10/26/25
From John Milton: “Luck is the residue of design.”
Quote of the day 08/19/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
Quote of the day 08/18/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
Quote of the day 08/17/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.”
Quote of the day 08/14/25
From E.E. Cummings: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Quote of the day 08/13/25
From John Keats: “Life is divine Chaos. It’s messy, and it’s supposed to be that way.”
Quote of the day 08/12/25
From John Keats: “Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”