#greatpoets

[dantes-social]

Figures from the past

Headcanon #1: Virgil is in Hell.

Headcanon #2: So are Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.

I’ve had to turn down the brightness of my phone due to how much dimmer it is down here. There’s some light, but it’s faint. I wonder how I’m going to see if it gets any darker than this. Maybe use my phone as a flashlight? My battery isn’t going to last that long ... 

Anyways, back to my original point, I got to meet some of the greatest poets and thinkers from the time before Christ. Virgil explained that their actions, though unfounded in Christianity, were good enough for God to pardon them the punishments of Hell. 

I was honored to find myself welcomed into their company, and longed to stay a while if it wasn’t for Virgil. 

Below: a picture I snuck of the great thinkers when I first approached them. Sorry if the quality isn’t great, I was working with poor lighting. 

[bttjoseph]

Weekend ideas....

[ylvnyc]

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.” #kahlilgibran • •• ••• •••• ••••• •••••• ••••••• #ylvnyc #greatpoets #greatquotes #knowthyself #note2self #notetoself #stickynotes https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ki2SkAxyD/?igshid=1dugcc4pz3q8e

[ylvnyc]

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless? But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. • • • • • • • #tbt #OnTime #kahlilgibran #greatpoets #nyc #iphontography #newyorkcity #smokingmanholes #smokesignals #peoplewatching #blurrypeople #moving #throughtime #greatshotiforgotabout #ylvnyc 💋 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nZzBMAbpQ/?igshid=ob179woqtq6v

[yesimmortalspiritblog]

I hope I answered your question satisfactorily. Be free to keep asking me questions. I will honor them 💞💞💞 #questions #satisfying #questionsandanswers #satisfactory #greatpoets #lovetorecite #lovetoread #brilliantwriters #writing #reading #poetryporn #keepwriting #keepreading #flourishedmind #beautifulminds #lovelyfinland @answerallquestions @honor https://www.instagram.com/p/BsistGQl3oL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ob7pk071pze3

[tmtmentoring-blog]

“In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. The person makes his or her decision to be a mentor, to be a rainbow in the clouds.” - Maya Angelou ... What a #phenomenalwoman Maya Angelou was. She lived as a celebrated poet, actress, a civil rights activist, and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Born April 4, 1928, today would have been her 90th birthday! #happybirthday #mayaangelou #greatpoets #mentors

[yourdisappointedarms]

“Wait, for now. Distrust everything if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?” #galwaykinnell #wait #inspirationalquotes #greatpoets #dayfifteen (at Olmsted Falls, Ohio)

[rachisravishing-blog]

Still I Rise

(an excerpt from the great Maya Angelou)

"You may shoot me with your WORDS,

You may cut me with your EYES,

You may kill me with your HATEFULNESS,

But STILL, like air,

I'LL RISE.