Quotes by Poets - Page 25

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Kahlil Gibran
Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.
William Collins
One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.
Pär Lagerkvist
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser
Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
Martin Buxbaum
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
Paul Valéry
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!
Walter Scott
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.
George Moore
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine
Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Lord Byron
Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
John Milton
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
William Shakespeare
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Hands have not tears to flow.
Dylan Thomas
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Matthew Arnold
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
George W. Russell
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Lord Byron
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
Frederick Peterson
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia H. Sigourney
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
Robert Frost
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
Wilhelm Busch
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
A book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám
Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Francis Thompson
The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Le Roi Jones
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
J. C. F. von Schiller
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
Charles Péguy
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes