Quotes by Poets - Page 235

All men would be cowards if they durst.
John Wilmot
to love is to have ancient wounds exposed to vicious winds and be caressed instead of burned
Emery Allen
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.
Dejan Stojanovic
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
Munia Khan
Haste denies all acts their dignity.
Dante Alighieri
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.
Aleister Crowley
In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.
Jay Parini
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah, grief makes us precise!
Leonard Cohen
Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.
Frederic Myers
I once dreamt that the man in the moon took an interest in me and reflected the sun’s light directly in my path, lighting the way for my footsteps to sink themselves into the ground. It was wonderful to have my course illuminated by one with a grander perspective than my own. But when I awoke, realizing I could not call on the moon for guidance, my spirit sank until it occurred to me I could talk to the one who had created the moon. And He has lit my path ever since.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Patriotism, that least discerning of pas
Jorge Luis Borges
Speculation, movements having abandoned rational thought, echo chambers, projection, hypocrisy by little to no self-awareness, bewildering minds brainwashed and manipulative hearts manipulated - one is sure to find these à la people cock-sure in their biased and fanatical, immovable despising of persons. We would all do well to humbly re-think from time to time: 'Whom do I really hate? For what purpose?
Criss Jami
To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage
Benny Bellamacina
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
André Breton
Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
Sophocles
Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.
Stuart Dybek
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
Sophocles
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God’s own heart?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.
Kabir
Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me
Anna Akhmatova
I can't talk, or I will throw up!
William Shakespeare
She lends her pen,to thoughts of him,that flow from it,in her solitary.For she is his poet,And he is her poetry.
Lang Leav
Be as thou wast wont to be.
William Shakespeare
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
James Thomson
The beautiful is always bizarre.
Charles Baudelaire
Night doesn’t fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had weight.
Alberto Caeiro
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran
If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?
Richelle E. Goodrich
How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
Warsan Shire
the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters
Tony Hoagland
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
Suzy Kassem
The whole world, as we’re coming to understand, is quivering in its place.
Kazim Ali
O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack,For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back,Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.
W.B. Yeats
cause when there's life there's still hope
Michael Morpurgo
Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.
Margaret Atwood
I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,,
Charles Bukowski
Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.
Catherynne M. Valente
Projection from the beginning of time
White women with a passionate horns
Butchered yet another beloved
Santosh Kalwar
The present is an eternal now.
Abraham Cowley
HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
Alfred Tennyson
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.
Peter Straub
If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.
Suzy Kassem
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
Criss Jami
If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin,and the coin tossedinto the sky,the coin will spin,the coin will flutter,but the eagle will never fly.
Henry Dumas
Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.
Christy Birmingham
I think deeply and write feelings from my soul.
Avijeet Das
Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.
Roman Payne
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.
Tupac Shakur
The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe
Tony Hoagland