Poems about Life

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

(extract  Song of Myself, Walt Whitman)

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 tagore life

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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shakespeare-all-world-stage life

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,

– William Shakespeare, As You Like It, –  Act II Scene VII

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” Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare, – Macbeth, 1606

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” In a man’s life, his time is but a moment, his being a mere flux, his senses a dim glimpse,
his body food for the worms, and his soul a restless eddy ¦
the things of the body pass like a flowing stream;
life is a brief sojourn, and one’s mark in this world is soon forgotten.”

Marcus Aurelius

Poems on Life

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