Poetry Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends”

“I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.”

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.”

“I might just end up writing again”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.”

“You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.”

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.”

“My whole being is a dark chant”