I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they dont, they never were. – Khalil Gibran
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. – Khalil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. – Khalil Gibran
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom