Friendship sayings and poems

Here are some friendship sayings and poems that celebrate the beauty and importance of friendship:

1. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard

2. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis

3. "In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips." - Unknown

4. "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

5. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." - John Evelyn

6. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." - Douglas Pagels

7. "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life." - Jean de La Fontaine

8. "Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren't." - Unknown

9. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison

10. "Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship Poems:

1. "A Friend" by Gillian Jones

A friend is like a flower,

a rose to be exact,

Or maybe like a brand new gate

that never comes unlatched.

A friend is like an owl,

both beautiful and wise.

Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,

whose spirit never dies.

A friend is like a heart that goes

strong until the end.

Where would we be in this world

if we didn't have a friend?

2. "Friendship" by Henry David Thoreau

I think awhile of Love, and while I think,

Love is to me a world,

Sole meat and sweetest drink,

And close connecting link

Tween heaven and earth.

I only know it is, not how or why,

My greatest happiness;

However hard I try,

Not if I were to die,

Can I explain.

I fain would ask my friend how it can be,

But when the time arrives,

Then Love is more lovely

Than anything to me,

And so I'm dumb.

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,

But only thinks and does;

Though surely out 'twill leak

Without the help of Greek,

Or any tongue.

A man may love the truth and practise it,

Beauty he may admire,

And goodness not omit,

As much as may befit

To reverence.

But only when these three together meet,

As they always incline,

And make one soul the seat,

And favorite retreat,

Of loveliness;

When under kindred shape, like loves and hates

And a kindred nature,

Proclaim us to be mates,

Exposed to equal fates

Eternally;

And each may other help, and service do,

Drawing Love's bands more tight,

Service he ne'er shall rue

While one and one make two,

And two are one;

In such case only doth man fully prove

Fully as man can do,

What power there is in Love

His inmost soul to move

Resistlessly.

3. "Friendship" by Emily Dickinson

A ruddy drop of manly blood

The surging sea outweighs,

The world uncertain comes and goes,

The lover rooted stays.

I fancied he was fled,

And, after many a year,

Glowed unexhausted kindliness

Like daily sunrise there.

My careful heart was free again, —

O friend, my bosom said,

Through thee alone the sky is arched,

Through thee the rose is red,

All things through thee take nobler form,

And look beyond the earth,

The mill-round of our fate appears

A sun-path in thy worth.

Me too thy nobleness has taught

To master my despair;

The fountains of my hidden life

Are through thy friendship fair.

Above is Friendship sayings and poems.