Quotes by Poets - Page 41

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?
William Stafford
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
All is well that ends well.
John Heywood
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
The Night has a thousand eyes The Day but one Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
Francis William Bourdillon
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
Guillaume S. du Bartas
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Lord Byron
The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.
Sappho
Making night hideous.
William Shakespeare
To all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.
Paul Valéry
There's villainous news abroad.
William Shakespeare
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare
Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
Horace
The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.
Ovid
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
Charles Lamb
Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!
John Milton
I love not man the less but nature more.
Lord Byron
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
John Dryden
I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams The brooks for the fishes of song.
Sam Walter Foss
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
William Wordsworth
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
W.S. Gilbert
Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
W.S. Gilbert
Earth's crammed with Heaven And every common bush afire with God.
E. B. Browning
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
All gardening is landscape painting.
Alexander Pope
The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Gurney
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
Gérard de Nerval
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
William Wordsworth
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
D.H. Lawrence
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.
Edith M. Thomas
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
Maxine Kumin