Quotes by Poets - Page 30

The course of nature is the art of God.
Edward Young
Father calls me William sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willie but the fellows call me Bill!
Eugene Field
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Leigh Hunt
There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
Omar Khayyám
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Horace
Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.
George Moore
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
William Congreve
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
Alexander Pope
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.
Heinrich Heine
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music touches places beyond our touching.
Keith Bosley
Music is another planet.
Alphonse Daudet
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!
Charles Lamb
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
Matthew Arnold
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
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar
This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
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