Quotes by Poets - Page 10

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.
Alexander Pope
If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.
Hesiod
One sits down first one thinks afterwards.
Jean Cocteau
Much rain wears the marble.
William Shakespeare
The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.
Lloyd Frankenberg
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Caroline Richards
Time is a kindly god.
Sophocles
Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley
Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.
Henry Austin Dobson
Let time that makes you homely make you sage.
Thomas Parnell
The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.
Charles Lamb
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.
Emily Dickinson
The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
Eliza Cook
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
William Butler Yeats
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
We do not remember days we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
Joanna Baillie
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Robert Frost
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A.E. Housman
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.
Lewis Thomas
April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Horace
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
James Russell Lowell
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
William Shakespeare
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
William Shakespeare
I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Rabindranath Tagore
Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
William Stafford
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
T.S Eliot
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen
Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!
Robert Browning
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Horace
We are always beginning to live but are never living.
Manilius
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
William Congreve
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Today is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.
Martial
The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Walter Savage Landor
Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet
The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.
Carl Sandburg
Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier