Quotes by Poets - Page 46

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Franqois Mauriac
After all my erstwhile dear my no longer cherished need we say it was no love just because it perished?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is nature's second son.
George Chapman
Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Louis Ginsberg
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach with here and there a sail just skipping In sight then lost amidst the forestry Of masts a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge dun cupola like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
Lord Byron
Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Trench
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Alexander Pope
I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Lord Byron
Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.
John Dryden
The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall Jarrell
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Walter Savage Landor
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
D.H. Lawrence
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Joseph Roux
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
George Moore
Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Hilaire Belloc
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Martial
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Philip Sidney
Like will to like each creature loves his kind.
Robert Herrick
The port is near the bells I hear the people all exulting While follow eyes the steady keel the vessel grim and daring But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
Walt Whitman
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Stephen Levine
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
Blessed are the joymakers.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
Better to be happy than wise.
John Heywood
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Alexander Pope
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled But yet I like the game and want to play.
Eugene F. Ware
The white flower of a blameless life.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
Omar Khayyám
Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
William Shakespeare
A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay