Quotes by Poets - Page 50

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.
D.H. Lawrence
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I follow my heart for I can trust it.
J. C. F. von Schiller
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
Systems die instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
George Santayana
Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
George E. Woodberry
It is our business to go as we are impelled.
D.H. Lawrence
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Mary Caroline Richards
Though this be madness yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Sophocles
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
I teach that all men are mad.
Horace
Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
William Davenant
That he is mad 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.
William Shakespeare
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
W.S. Gilbert
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran
Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.
Alexander Pope
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman
This was the most unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart.
William Shakespeare
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
The only menace is inertia.
St. John Perse
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.
John Keats
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
A good man never dies.
Callimachus
I have been dying for twenty years now I am going to live.
James Drummond Burns
We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
R. H. Stoddard
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
William Ellery Channing
To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in ferment the character undecided the way of life uncertain.
John Keats
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
Mary Webb
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.
John Keats
Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.
Thomas Hardy
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
George Santayana
Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann von Goethe
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.
Paul Valéry
To some people the impossible is impossible.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
E.E. Cummings
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Did nothing in particular and did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert
Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge