Quotes by Poets - Page 59

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Johann von Goethe
In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
Charles Baudelaire
The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.
Virgil
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
The gentleman is a Christian product.
George H. Calvert
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W.H. Auden
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
William Blake
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
God the first garden made and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley
One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney
A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot Fringed pool Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Thomas Edward Brown
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyám
Man is a gaming animal.
Charles Lamb
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
Owen Felltham
Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.
Thomas Campbell
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
T. G. Appleton
The ripest fruit first falls.
William Shakespeare
Should auld acquaintances be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days o'auld lang syne?
James Drummond Burns
Love me please I love you I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.
J. Petit-Senn
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris
Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
Friendship is love without his wings!
Lord Byron
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
I have always differentiated between two types of friends those who want proofs of friendship and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Gérard de Nerval
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann von Goethe
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Walter Savage Landor
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
Arthur Christopher Benson
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
Sophocles
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
Scratch a lover and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.
Helen Hunt Jackson
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
Mary Webb
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Ogden Nash
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.
Sir Walter Scott
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman