Quotes by Poets - Page 23

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A man's a man for a' that!
James Drummond Burns
Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.
Crispin Best
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny.
Aphra Behn
Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.
Boris Pasternak
She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation.
Thomas Hardy
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Dorothy Parker
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
Where no hope is left is left no fear.
John Milton
Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.
Avijeet Das
Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.
Margaret Atwood
Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time, then set off.
Omar Khayyám
My religion is to live - and die - without regret.
Milarepa
What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?
Sorin Cerin
Many a times, doctors, the worshipers of science, are helpless. They know a few technical things and perform their duty diligently. But they wait for nature to take its course as well.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
And the roads called us to take the walk.
Avijeet Das
I'd love to live forever except the person that made this game board has a tendency to occasionally knock some pieces off
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again.
Jay Woodman
This is the sacred secret of love. Love a person for their heart and only their heart, and you will be rewarded with the best unconditional love in return. If you ignore the heart and focus just on a person’s outer beauty, love will ignore you. Love a person for only the beauty found in their heart, and that beautiful heart will always be beautiful to you.
Suzy Kassem
Don't live in the dreams, don't fly high, don't keep the expectations that cause your death before the death.
Ehsan Sehgal
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.
N. Scott Momaday
You know you are alone in marriage when your spouse is ignorant of your daily needs.
Gift Gugu Mona
Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.
Santosh Kalwar
The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.
Paul Éluard
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold
Thomas Hood
Nearer my God to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee!
Sarah Flower Adams
Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.
Catherynne M. Valente
The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
Criss Jami
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
Akilnathan Logeswaran
Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and if I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought
Arthur Rimbaud
Dare to forge your own path. Even rocks can roll.
Richelle E. Goodrich
POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret
Pierre Reverdy
I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.
Charles Lamb
The less we love her when we woo her,The more we draw a woman in,
Alexander Pushkin
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
I become a horn to be heard over whistles.
Krysten Hill
Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!
Avijeet Das
To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.
Charles Baudelaire
Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.Some brains are battling and working and remembering and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over. It is to the lazy minds that I am now speaking, and from my own experience I imagine this includes nineteen people out of every twenty. I am one of that clan myself and always have been.
Ted Hughes
Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.
Roberto Bolaño
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
W.H. Auden
Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign commerce" on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house, is to withdraw, step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves - this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together.
Gaston Bachelard
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
Thomas Hardy
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
Kabir
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.
Kamand Kojouri
There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.
Santosh Kalwar
I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.
Santosh Kalwar
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Robert Burns
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
Ovid
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.
Tadeusz Borowski
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A.E. Housman