Quotes by Poets - Page 16

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
Sophocles
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Sophocles
If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I am my own heaven and hell!
J. C. F. von Schiller
He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
Friedrich Klopstock
Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.
Mildred Barthel
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.
W.H. Auden
I woman give birth: and this time to myself.
Alma Villanueva
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Hermann Hesse
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
William Blake
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
John Gay
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.
John Keble
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
Lucan
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.
Robert Burns
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
William Shakespeare
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
Philip James Bailey
I am because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude Stein
To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.
Phyllis McGinley
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.
Phyllis McGinley
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
Adrienne Rich
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Marianne Moore
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.
Muriel Rukeyser
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
Adrienne Rich
Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Love understands love it needs no talk.
Frances Ridley Havergal
The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.
Marie de France
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Gertrude Stein
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.
Muriel Spark
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Phyllis McGinley
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.
Mary F. Robinson
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley