Quotes by Poets - Page 8

The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Hesiod
Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low an excellent thing in woman.
William Shakespeare
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Within your heart keep one still secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll
Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.
Muriel Rukeyser
Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace And saw within the moonlight in his room Making it rich and like a lily in bloom An angel writing in a book of gold Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold And to the presence in the room he said - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head And with a look made all of sweet accord Answered "The names of those who love the Lord."
Leigh Hunt
When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My castles in the air.
Thomas Love Peacock
One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
Margaret Deland
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
John Milton
Virtue is health vice is sickness.
Petrarch
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Purity is obscurity.
Ogden Nash
Violence is just where kindness is vain.
Corneille
Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
Dorothy Parker
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W.S. Gilbert
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!
George P. Morris
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.
James Drummond Burns
Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
Joseph Addison
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
Claudian
Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
My man's as true as steel.
William Shakespeare
Too much truth Is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
John Dryden
Trust one who has tried.
Virgil
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
William Cullen Bryant
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
Love conquers all.
Virgil
I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for risking everything for. And the trouble is if you don't risk everything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
When praying does no good insurance does help.
Bertolt Brecht
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
Sir Walter Scott
All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw Only our love hath no decay This no to-morrow hath nor yesterday Running it never runs from us away But truly keeps his first last everlasting day.
John Donne