Quotes by Poets - Page 19

Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.
J. C. F. von Schiller
We love because it is the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
Alexander Pope
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann von Goethe
Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.
Pindar
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
J. C. F. von Schiller
This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Henrik Ibsen
With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.
Martial
The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Arthur Christopher Benson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
Sophocles
Truth has beauty power and necessity.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.
William Ellery Channing
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
George E. Woodberry
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Lord Byron
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Andrei Voznesensky
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
All reformers are bachelors.
George Moore
Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Horace
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
God will pardon me. It's his business.
Heinrich Heine
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
One religion is as true as another.
Henry Burton
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
Matthew Prior
There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
Erica Jong
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
Elizabeth Bibesco
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Don't be agnostic - be something.
Robert Frost
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded God were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Heinrich Heine