The Humbling and Other Poems

Robert J. Tiess

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Be more than symbol, strength, and dream. / Be light! Inspire! Revive! / Redeem! (from Phoenix: Salvation)”

“you wonder / when you start to rise, / if light exists / outside this night, / but this is how / it all begins: / from darkness / not of any sins... (from Lotus Dreamer)”

“The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay. (from Now I've Become a Butterfly)”

“One lie might eye the highest throne / inside the castle of your mind, / and any whim may play the lord / when left unchecked, out of control, / once knights of reason flee their posts, / let sentiments invade these walls, / then leave the keep without defense. / How easily a kingdom falls! (from Interior Kingdom)”

“Let aspirations reach as leaves / which feel for sun beyond the clouds, / whatever warmth and radiance / might make your mind more like the rose: (from Florescence)”

“Come dreamers, / be our architects! (from Architects of the Impossible)”

“Beyond the rambling waterfalls, / the thunders mumbling in their sleep, / and crickets with encrypting trills, / the dialogues run far and deep / throughout the forests most ignore: / the histories of all that crawls... (from Conversations with Gaia)”

“A mouse would solve this handily, / except I like to probe unknowns / and be amazed by what I find / along the corners of your mind. / Wherever you will let me start, / l love to learn your ways by heart. (from Amazed)”

“the universe / is not just you." (from Personal Copernican Revolution)”

“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence... (from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)”

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