Quotes by Poets - Page 14

The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George Edward Woodberry
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
Homer
His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.
Homer
His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
Lord Byron
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Propertius
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
Nicolas Boileau
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
Ovid
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
Piet Hein
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.
John Keats
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell And by and by my Soul returned to me And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Omar Khayyám
It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
W. E. Henley
Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
W. E. Henley
I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Walt Whitman
More in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
William Shakespeare
Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.
Ben Jonson
A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.
Charles Wesley
The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron
I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.
Robert Browning Hamilton
When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!
William Shakespeare
All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
Miguel de Cervantes
What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
Maurice Maeterlinck
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
W.H. Auden
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
Alone alone all all alone Alone on a wide wide sea.
Hartley Coleridge
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
Hartley Coleridge
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
In solitude when we are least alone.
Lord Byron
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
Omar Khayyám
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.
William Cowper
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
Lord Byron
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
Theodore O'Hara
Home they brought her warrior dead.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!
William Collins
I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer the beer stronger the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.
Charles Lamb
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost