Quotes by Poets - Page 200

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Jean de La Fontaine
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.
Criss Jami
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.
Sylvia Plath
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
Munia Khan
Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.
Allen Ginsberg
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.
Rita Dove
Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?
Thomas Hardy
She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.
Anthony Liccione
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before Queen Victoria's accession.Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wivesAnd more – I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;And his numerous progeny prospers and thrivesAnd the village is proud of him in his decline.At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy,When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all … Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! … Ho! hi!Oh, my eye!My mind may be wandering, but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"Old Deuteronomy sits in the street,He sits in the High Street on market day;The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat,But the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away.The cars and the lorries run over the kerb,And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED —So that nothing untoward may chance to disturbDeuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposedOr when he's engaged in domestic economy:And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well of all …Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …Ho! hi!Oh, my eye!My sight's unreliable, but I can guessThat the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy!
T.S Eliot
Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.
Suzy Kassem
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Homer
How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.
Jeet Thayil
We are all in the same boat,boat of life. Does not seemto be a rudder with oarsman.Perhaps my words may find a path, path through currents and wateras we continue our journey onriver of life. -River of Life
Robert Trabold
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
Anthony Liccione
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
Leonard Cohen
This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel good?
Robert Pinsky
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
But you will die, Amor
Richelle E. Goodrich
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
Barbara Kingsolver
And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
O it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
James Whitcomb Riley
Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.
Ogwo David Emenike
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
Alexander Pope
Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That’s the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!
Derek Walcott
The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.
Robert Browning
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
Criss Jami
A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.
Jack Kerouac
Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
T.S Eliot
As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.
John Mark Green
Every child has known God,Not the God of names,Not the God of don'ts,Not the God who ever doesAnything weird,But the God who knows only 4 wordsAnd keeps repeating them, saying:"Come Dance with Me."Come Dance.
Hafiz
For years I wondered what was her curious power, her ability to attract all kinds of people to her and to use them for her own ends, often with their knowledge. i think it was that people liked watching and being with someone who enjoyed life as much as Sylvia seemed to enjoy it. She squeezed all the juice from the orange, or, to change the figure, drained the cup to the leaves, the very dregs.
Elizabeth Winder
The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
Thomas Burnett Swann
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.
Siri Hustvedt
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
Thomas Hardy
Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense.Some people call me Maurice. Some people call me the Gangsta of Love. Some people just want to live...but me, I'm the one still alive.
Dave Matthes
I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Be there a picnic for the devil,an orgy for the satyr,and a wedding for the bride.
Roman Payne
Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
John Keats
However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.
Sorin Cerin
She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker
Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.
Thomas Moore
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.
Lera Auerbach