Quotes by Poets - Page 47

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
His saying was: live and let live.
Friedrich von Schiller
Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
Omar Khayyám
Our whole life is like a play.
Ben Jonson
We come and we cry and that is life we yawn and we depart and that is death!
Ausone de Chancel
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg
Love doesn't make the world go round Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Life is but a day at most.
James Drummond Burns
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation and The exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
I love humanity but I hate people.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise The pain the calm and the astonishment Desire illimitable and silent content And all dear names men use to cheat despair For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
Rupert Brooke
If music be the food of love play on Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
William Shakespeare
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
John Keats
Sloppy raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
Dennis Trudell
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh how daily life is. (Ah que la vie est quotidienne.)
Jules Laforgue
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de La Fontaine
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others even the dull and ignorant they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love - for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God whatever you conceive Him to be and whatever your labours and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.
Max Ehrmann
One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Walter Scott
Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
Such as we are made of such we be.
William Shakespeare
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T.S Eliot
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Cardinal Newman
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.
Robert Burns
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
A.E. Housman
The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.
Louis Ginsberg
This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.
Robert W. Service
Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
John Keats
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Frances Cornford
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Sebastien Chamfort
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
A.E. Housman
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
If way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Laurence Ferlinghetti
Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.
John Milton
Give me your tired your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
James Drummond Burns
Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Oliver Wendell Holmes