Quotes About Gratitude

We love the things we love for what they are.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

What grace I have is enough.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day