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I, as some of you may have guessed, love poems. So I collect snippets of poems I enjoy, and decided to share. :)

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

- "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann

You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

- "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann

He who knows Love--becomes Love, and his eyes
Behold Love in the heart of everyone,
Even the loveless: as the light of the sun
Is one with all it touches.

- "He Who Knows Love" by Elsa Barker

Because I want to sleep the sleep of the apples,
and learn a mournful song that will clean all earth away from me,
because I want to live with that shadowy child
who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea.

- "Gacela of the Dark Death" by Federico García Lorca

oh if only he could overcome the pull of the clay
he could live in the nest of the stars
he could jump from ray to ray

- "The Poet" by Czeslaw Milosz

I don't understand
the source of starlight, or starlight's destinations.
And already another year slides out
of balance.

- "My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud" by Li-Young Lee

You think of sea-roads and earth-roads
you traveled once, and always
in the same direction: away.

- "With Ruins" by Li-Young Lee

If I feel the night
move to disclosures or crescendos,
it's only because I'm famished
for meaning; the night
merely dissolves.

- "The City in Which I Love You" by Li-Young Lee

I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.

- "Two Songs for Solitude: The Crystal-Gazer" by Sara Teasdale

The marsh-grass weaves me a wall of green,
But the wind comes whispering in between,
In the dead of night when the sky is deep
The wind comes waking me out of sleep—
Why does it always bring to me
The far-off, terrible call of the sea?

- "The Sea Wind" by Sara Teasdale