Quotes by Poets - Page 42

Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.
Robert Burns
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
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
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
We talk on principle but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt Jackson
I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson
Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
Edwin Markham
There is none In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep strong deathless love save that within A mother's heart.
Felicia D. Hemans
A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive.
Hartley Coleridge
The bravest battle that ever was fought Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not It was fought by the mothers of men.
Joaquin Miller
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave He passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
Johann von Goethe
Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.
Mary Dow Brine
Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
Celia Thaxter
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
James Dickey