Quotes by Poets - Page 64

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
John Keats
Tis the most tender part of love each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
Love blinds us to faults hatred to virtues.
Moses Ibn Ezra
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
James Russell Lowell
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking Knowing God's own time is best In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Tell me who admires and loves you and I will tell you who you are.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
Faith assuages guides restores.
Arthur Rimbaud
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.
Edward Young
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth
Faith is hidden household capital.
Johann von Goethe
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.
W.H. Auden
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
Jean Racine
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.
Heinrich Heine
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.
Anne Bradstreet
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
John Donne
Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey
Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.
William Shakespeare
And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
John Keats
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
J. C. F. von Schiller
They fail and they alone who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Johann von Goethe
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
Finite to fail but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
A man must learn to forgive himself.
Arthur Davison Ficke
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
Piet Hein
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann von Goethe