Be Drunk in Love Since Love Is Everything That Exists

• Ghazal 455 Rumi
• More on  Rumi

“Hope” is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops -at all-

• Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson

Photo: Pavitrata Taylor

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

From: Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

William Blake

Photo: Tejvan Pettinger

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high – piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;

-Excerpt from John Keats – When I Have Fears that I may cease to be

• Song of Myself – Walt Whitman

” Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

- John Keats

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

- Robert Graves,

“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.”

- Emily Dickinson

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. “

- Novalis

“To have great poets there must be great audiences too. “

- Walt Whitman

“Poetry I read to lighten my mind and enlighten my heart.
Poetry I read to sweeten my bitter mind.
Poetry I read to replace my heart’s sorrows with my soul’s ecstasy.
Poetry I read to transform my human mind-jungle into my divine heart-garden.”

- Sri Chinmoy

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary”

- Kahlil Gibran

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

- Robert Frost

“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

- W.B. Yeats

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

- Joseph Joubert

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”

- Paul Valéry

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

- George Sand

World peace can be achieved
When, in each person,
The power of love
Replaces the love of power

- Sri Chinmoy

“Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.”

- Lao Tse

” Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal. “

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. “

~ Mother Teresa

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

~ Dwight Eisenhower

Related

• Poems on Peace
• Quotes on Peace by Sri Chinmoy
• Short poems on peace

Self-pity does not
Console one’s mind.
Self-pity cannot
Strengthen one’s heart.
Self-pity only makes one
A real stranger to oneself.

” The inaugural Address of Kennedy on January 20, 1961 is eloquent evidence that the mantric utterance is no longer India’s monopoly. There are sentiments in that soul-stirring address that are as deep as the Atlantic in their outlook; ideals as high as the Himalayas and resolutions as powerful as Atomic Power.”

“...my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.“

- Sri Chinmoy ¹

“Hope is strength. Hope is progress. When the sun of hope is eclipsed, the inevitable fear of bondage looms large. Kennedy, with his breadth of outlook and depth of insight, can help immensely to restore this hope to man.”

- Sri Chinmoy ²

“President Kennedy is, as it were, the lineal descendant of the American nation’s traditional leadership. As George Washington was the Father of the United States, as Abraham Lincoln was its Saviour, as Franklin D. Roosevelt was the Voice of America, even so is John Kennedy the Noble Defender of World Freedom and World Peace.”

- Sri Chinmoy ³

“If America wants to be friends with all the world, who can be her enemy? Says her mouthpiece, President Kennedy:”

“We are not against any man, or any nation, or any system, except as it is hostile to freedom.“

- Sri Chinmoy ⁴

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Alone he stood
Above all storms of life.
He stood alone
To challenge pain and strife.
Alone he stood
To feed a blooming race.
He stood alone
To change earth’s tearful face.

- Sri Chinmoy ⁵

Related

• John F Kennedy – featured in – America the Beautiful
• Unique – John F. Kennedy

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

— John Keats

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
— John Lennon

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
— Anaïs Nin

What will you accomplish
By treasuring yesterday’s dreams?
You have to treasure
Only today’s reality.

- Sri Chinmoy

Related

• Quotes on Dreams