Poetry Sips

Poetry sips from across the world

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

What pain and distress
A dream tryst brings!
I startle and wake,
And search in vain for you,
Beyond the reach of my hand.

夢の逢ひは苦しかりけりおどろきて掻き探れども手にも觸れねば

#Manyoshu #JapanesePoetry #万葉集

[Daily Dose of Philosophy @PhilosophyDose_]

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

[Jane Austen @austendaily]

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Yet despite everything, only we know how to be so distantly together.

- Julio Cortázar

#poetry #poetrylovers #lovequotes #YouandMe

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Between what is said but not meant, and meant but not said, most of love is lost.

- Khalil Gibran

#philosophy #wisdom #literaturelovers #quoteoftheday

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”

- Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

#Kafka #literaturelovers #poetrycommunity #quotesdaily #lovequotes #love

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

The right person, the wrong time. The right script, the wrong line. The right poem, the wrong rhyme and a piece of you that was never mine. 

- @KTowneJr

#love #poetry #lovequotes

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Since you left, home is dark.
No lights were broken, but hearts were.

- Shahrazad al-Khalij

#poetry #arabicpoetry #lovequotes

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

All of a sudden,
I was stuck between
wanting to wait for you
and wanting to forget you.

I didn't know which one was better
so somehow
I was doing both
at the same time

#poetry #love

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

- Franz Kafka

#Kafka #literaturelovers #poetrycommunity

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Don't bend;
don't water it down;
don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

- Franz Kafka

#Kafka #literaturelovers #poetrycommunity #quotesdaily

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions
which a minute will reverse.

- T.S. Eliot

#TSEliot #Prufrock #LovePoetry #ModernistLiterature #love #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #lovequotes

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

The Greek word for return is nostos.  Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

- Milan Kundera, Ignorance

#nostalgia #love #booklovers #inspirationalquotes #poetry #lovequotes #poetrylovers

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

- Franz Kafka

#sleeplessnights #lovequotes #poetrylovers #poetry #booklovers #love

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion

- Madeline Miller

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

- Franz Kafka

#love #loveletters #lovequotes #poetrylovers

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

- Elif Shafak

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[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me

- Emily Dickinson

#EmilyDickinson #love #poetrylovers #poetry #lovequotes #writerscommunity

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

In your light, I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

- Rumi

#love #lovepoetry #poetry #rumi #writerscommunity

[Poetry Sips @PoetrySips]

We loved with a love that was more than love.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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