Poets And Novelist

[sailove]

Let me start this thread out with an understanding! I only wish to express the views of our ancestors.

[sailove]

Leo Tolstoy : Russian Novelist Sept 09 1828- Nov 20 1910 " All violence consist of some people forcing others , under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do "

[sailove]

I would love to see some love poetry in this thread !

[sailove]

" Everyone thinks of changing the world but, no one thinks of changing himself " Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist

[Enoch Root]

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..." --John Keats

[randolph]

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?