Cages Quote by Coleman Barks Download Open image “These poems need to be released from their cages,” — Coleman Barks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cages Inspirational Love Needs Poetry
“Each poem holds the voice of a moment. Held within, they are contained, damned to silence; released, they fly into the world to find… — Noa Daniels Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment… — Jón Kalman Stefánsson Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“ In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for the world,… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing. — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off. — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist, then… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings… — Michael Elmore-Meegan Copy Share Image
“And then a strange thing happened. Out of the diseased and deteriorated pool os tired thoughts came life. A simple and poisoned life, but… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it. — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head… — Deborah Priya Henry Copy Share Image
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