Ever had one of those days— I’m talking a really bad day —where you just want to shut your phone off and be away from the world? When that happens, it helps to turn to the experts on life (writers, of course). They seem to have it all figured out. And if not, they can at least offer you some guidance or improve your mood. Here’s 21 lines of literature (poetry and prose) that will turn your bad day around.
Would you like an adventure now, or would you like your tea first? – J.M. Barrie
Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too? –Elizabeth Bishop
I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.- T.S. Eliot
For you are no part, but a whole; no portion, but a being. – Ezra Pound
There are no stars tonight / but those of memory. –Hart Crane
End fact. Try fiction. – Ezra Pound
But glad to have sat under thunder and rain with you, and grateful too for the sunlight on the garden. –Louis MacNeice
Nothing will give up life: even the dirt will keep breathing a small breath. –Theodore Roethke
Sundays lie in sunburnt parks. – Robert Fitzgerald
Be with me, darling, early and late. – John Fredrick Nims
You are like the flowers that vomit beauty at midnight -William Carlos Williams
I would link the minutes of my days close, somehow, to your days. –Muriel Rukeyser
I lost two cities, lovely ones. –Elizabeth Bishop
I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. – Sylvia Plath
Sit somewhere for a while and say things. – Philip Levine
I am falling asleep to the music of the sea – Adrienne rich
Somebody loves us all. – Elizabeth Bishop
Night usually computes itself in stars, cryptic as a punchcard. – Alice Fulton
The sun and stars seemed to reel above us. – David Mura
There was nothing to do but drive, ride it out, sing along in silence. –Stephen Dunn
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. – Pedro Arrupe
Oh, how we go on. – Gary Snyder
