short i miss you poems

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~Author Unknown



I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson



The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham



Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi



When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~John Muir



A #6 aluminum needle has been known to furnish an excellent emergency shearpin for an outboard motor. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman



My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ~John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment



Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. ~James Matthew Barrie



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ~E.M. Forster



Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. ~Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex, 1986



All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull



We have met the enemy and they are us! ~Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1971



Happiness will not pass you by when you're skipping. ~Jessi Lane Adams



We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home because we have made the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable. For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination, resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger - those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds. ~Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996



Silence is also speech. ~Proverb



Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ~Seneca



Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ~Laurence Sterne



When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff



Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? ~Sylvia Plath, "Mystic"