Quotes by Poets - Page 79

Much that I sought I could not find much that I found I could not bind much that I bound I could not free much that I freed returned to me.
Lee Wilson Dodd
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Merrit Malloy
In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.
Robert Herrick
To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
Julia Dorr
You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
D.H. Lawrence
On God for all events depend You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best Leave to your Maker all the rest.
Nathaniel Cotton
Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
Kahlil Gibran
In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.
René Char
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.
Cardinal Newman
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Through the picture I see reality. Through the word I understand it.
Sven Lidman
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
George Santayana
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
The play's the thing.
William Shakespeare
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.
Sir Walter Scott
We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Charles Lamb
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.
T.S Eliot
From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
Maxwell Anderson
A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
William Shakespeare
If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith
I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
Better to accept whatever happens.
Horace
There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.
William Shakespeare
When you make your peace with authority you become authority.
Jim Morrison
A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.
Dōgen
Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare
He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Horace
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die " and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel de Unamuno
For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.
Laurence Hope
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Pindar
We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Walter Savage Landor
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
William Cowper
The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.
Nina Berberova
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry
Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief your time for joy will come believe me.
Aleksandr Pushkin
Whatever is-is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake