Quotes by Poets - Page 483

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
Aleister Crowley
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host.
Dorothy Parker
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Dorothy Parker
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
Dorothy Parker
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
Charles Bukowski
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
E Nesbit
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."Said the old man, "I do that too."The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."I do that too," laughed the little old man.Said the little boy, "I often cry."The old man nodded, "So do I."But worst of all," said the boy, "it seemsGrown-ups don't pay attention to me."And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.I know what you mean," said the little old man.
Shel Silverstein
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
Howard Nemerov
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Charles Lamb
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski
cause when there's life there's still hope
Michael Morpurgo
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
Jalaluddin Rumi
By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
Maya Angelou
You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
Maya Angelou
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
Sherman Alexie
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
Jack Kerouac
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
Charles Bukowski
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Margaret Atwood
Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.
Robert M. Drake
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
Criss Jami
You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.
Robert M. Drake
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.
Sylvia Plath
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
Jack Kerouac
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.
Maya Angelou
I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Sherman Alexie
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Najwa Zebian
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Music, my rampart and my only one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;tWhoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
Walt Whitman
Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.
Santosh Kalwar
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T.S Eliot
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.
Robert M. Drake
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
Tyler Kent White
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
Robert M. Drake
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
Mary Oliver
God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.
Fanny J. Crosby
Last nightthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying, what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud, to be happy againin a new wayon the earth! That’s what it saidas it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanishedlike a dream of the oceaninto the branchesand the grass below.Then it was over.The sky cleared.I was standingunder a tree.The tree was a treewith happy leaves, and I was myself, and there were stars in the skythat were also themselvesat the momentat which momentmy right handwas holding my left handwhich was holding the treewhich was filled with starsand the soft rain –imagine! imagine! the long and wondrous journeysstill to be ours.
Mary Oliver
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook
Nizar Qabbani
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
W.H. Auden
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
Barbara Kingsolver
To save all we must risk all.
Friedrich Schiller