Quotes by Poets - Page 54

Though I know he loves me tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale
A mighty pain to love it is and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Richard Hovey
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
John Donne
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.
William Shakespeare
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens
Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron
My heart's in the Highlands my heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Robert Burns
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Miguel de Cervantes
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
Kahlil Gibran
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
John Milton
Little pitchers have wide ears.
George Herbert
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
William Shakespeare
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
John Heywood
Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.
Bonaro Overstreet
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm.
Thomas Tusser
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
J. Petit-Senn
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
Ben Jonson
Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
Make us happy and you make us good.
Robert Browning
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
What is the worth of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge
Life delights in life.
William Blake
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.
Johann von Goethe
My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Georgina Tossetti
When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret Atwood
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
Don Marquis
To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.
W.H. Auden
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
Sophocles
Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
Virgil
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
Horace
Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
John Masefield
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann von Goethe
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
The will of man is his happiness.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.
Marguerite Wilkinson
If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
Where thou art that is home.
Emily Dickinson
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Anne Ridler
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
E. Merrill Root