A Quote by Theodore Roethke

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

Theodore Roethke

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Declare Endure Live Live By Longing Lovers Pure Summon Vision

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Theodore Roethke
American - Poet
May 25, 1908 - August 1, 1963

Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

Mick Napier

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

William Butler Yeats

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

Ramakrishna

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Rumi

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

Fethullah Gulen

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

Gregory Maguire

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

Isadora Duncan

The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

Muhammad Iqbal

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

John Lennon

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.