Quotes by Poets - Page 5

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.
Arthur Symons
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Landon
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
The Gods rank work above virtues.
Hesiod
If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Raymond Queneau
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.
Charles Baudelaire
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
Nicolas Boileau
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
Charles Baudelaire
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Robert Frost
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.
Edward Arlington Robinson
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
May Sarton
Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
John Ciardi
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
More than kisses letters mingle souls.
John Donne
For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
John Greenleaf Whittier
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.
Matthew Prior
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Baptiste Racine
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
He utters empty words he utters sound without mind.
Virgil
My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.
William Shakespeare
Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
William Shakespeare
Words that weep and tears that speak.
Abraham Cowley
They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Words writ in waters.
George Chapman
Why don't you speak for yourself John?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
Wentworth Dillon
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
William Shakespeare
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.
William Shakespeare
The time I've lost in wooing In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes Has been my heart's undoing.
George Moore
Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
Joanna Baillie
Mum is the word.
Miguel de Cervantes
Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
W.S. Gilbert
Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Matthew Arnold
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
Yes I answered you last night "No " this morning sir I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
E. B. Browning
If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
James Drummond Burns
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron