..poetry's most powerful lines ever written...

akuperatijee

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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"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, Emily Dickinson

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden daffodils"

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth

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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of being and ideal grace."

How Do I Love Thee?, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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"I can promise all my heart's devotion; / A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow; / A love that's true and ever growing; / A hand to hold in your's through each tomorrow."

These I Can Promise, Mark Twain

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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate"

Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

luluisgreat

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

— Victor Hugo

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu

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they slipped
briskly
into an intimacy
from which they
never recovered

-f. scott fitzgerald

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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

boogeese

Ada satu buku puisi dalam deretan buku2 yang terdapat di rak buku arwah Abah, himpunan puisi2 karya Amir Hamzah:

DI DALAM KELAM

Kembali lagi marak-semarak
jilat melonjak api penyuci
dalam hatiku tumbuh jahanam
terbuka neraka di lapangan swarga

Api melambai melengkung lurus
merunta ria melidah belah
menghangus debu mengitam belam
buah tenaga bunga suwarga

Hati firdausi segera sentosa
Murtad merentak melaut topan
Naik kabut mengarang awan
menghalang cuaca nokta utama

Berjalan aku di dalam kelam
terus lurus moal berhenti
jantung dilebur dalam jahanam
kerongkong hangus kering peteri.

Meminta aku kekasihku sayang;
turunkan hujan embun rahmatmu
biar padam api membelam
semoga pulih pokok percayaku.

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Petikan CEMPAKA MULIA
Kemboja, kemboja bunga rayuan
hendakkah tuan menebarkan bibit
barang sebiji di atas pangkuan
musafir lata malang berakit?

Petikan KURNIA
Kau kurniai aku,
Kelereng kaca cerah cuaca,
Hikmat raya tersembunyi dalamnya,
Jua bahaya dikandung kurnia, jampi kau beri,
Menundukkan kepala naga angkara.
Kelereng kaca kilauan kasih,
Menunjukkan daku tulisan tanganMu
Memaksa sukmaku bersorak raya
Melapangkan dadaku, senantiasa sentosa
Sebab kelereng guli riwarni,
Kuketahui langit tinggi berdiri,
Tanah rendah membukit datar.
Kutilik diriku, dua sifat mesra satu:
Melangit tinggi, membumi keji.

boogeese

Petikan HANYUT AKU
Aku tenggelam.
Tenggelam dalam malam.
Air di atas mendidih keras.
Bumi di bawah menolak keatas.
Mati aku, kekasihku, mati aku!

Petikan HANYA SATU
Bersemayam sempana di jemala gembala
Juriat julita bapaku iberahim
Keturunan intan dua cahaya
Pancaran putera berlainan bunda

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