Quotes by Poets - Page 466

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.
Hermann Hesse
There is no dishonor in wisdom.
James Welch
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just
Sappho
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
Théophile Gautier
Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.
Murasaki Shikibu
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
Homer
Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.
Thiruvalluvar
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
T.S Eliot
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan Stojanovic
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
Margaret Atwood
After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.
Wallace Stevens
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist
Sophocles
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
Randall Jarrell
Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.
Sorin Cerin
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …
Maurice Maeterlinck
Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
Suzy Kassem
Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.
Sorin Cerin
To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.
Sorin Cerin
If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
Sorin Cerin
To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
Fernando Pessoa
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.
William Ellery Channing
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Herman Melville
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley
Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.
Archilochos
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.
Mikhail Naimy
Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.
Suzy Kassem
Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
Allan Wolf
all appears to change when we change
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We know that for mankind to move forward, changes must be made. However, if an old man is wise only by his gray hair, yet it is inevitable that this wisdom will also become impaired by age, then it can be deduced that we cannot expect the very old or very young to make progressive strides to better society, it must be up to the men and women still in the prime of their lives to re-learn and teach the changes needed to be made.
Suzy Kassem
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.
John Keats
The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.
Suzy Kassem
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit
Benny Bellamacina
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
Stephen Levine
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
George Gordon Byron
When you love you give meaning to this world.
Sorin Cerin
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Suzy Kassem
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
Arthur Rimbaud
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
Carl Sandburg
A moment’s beginning ends in a moment
Munia Khan
Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it.
William Wordsworth
The night is still waiting.
Dejan Stojanovic
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
Dejan Stojanovic
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
Aberjhani
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet
We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.
Dejan Stojanovic
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.
Piet Hein
Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.
Santosh Kalwar
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
Benny Bellamacina
he who is greedy is always in want
Horace
Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyám
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Dejan Stojanovic
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
Dejan Stojanovic
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Dejan Stojanovic