Recently Added Poems
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
"Love her but leave her wild."