Quotes by Poets - Page 332

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D.H. Lawrence
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'
W.H. Auden
I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.
Fernando Pessoa
Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.
Alexander Pope
Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion:
William Shakespeare
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.
Lang Leav
Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy
Christina Rossetti
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
Joseph Addison
The secret to style is a beautiful smile.
Richelle E. Goodrich
But say I could repent and could obtaineBy Act of Grace my former state: how soonwould higth recal high thoughts; how soon unsaywhat feign'd submission swore: ease would recantvows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement growwhere wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep:which would but lead me to a worse relapseand heavier fall: so should I purchase cleaveshort intermission bought with double smart:This knows my punisher; therefore as farfrom granting here, as I from begging peace:All hope excluded thus, behold in steadof us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind created, and for his this World. So farewell Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost.
John Milton
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Gordon Byron
A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".
Kahlil Gibran
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
Future never desires to become a past
Munia Khan
In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry it into a singular space and it is this that causes the feelings of loneliness; or it is this that collides the feeling with the experience so that what is left is the solitude called loneliness.
Claudia Rankine
When sadness knows the reason of tears, heart prepares to carry the ache for years
Munia Khan
For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Sylvia Plath
Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.
Siri Hustvedt
I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
Jorge Luis Borges
A drop of ink may make a million think.
George Gordon Byron
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic
If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.
William Cowper
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.
Charles Bukowski
As ill-luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
Christopher Fry
Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fear is a powerful stimulant.
Margaret Atwood
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was, after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world.
Hermann Hesse
And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits at. And this too is an echo, an echo of time, the shadows of a discus spinning through blinding sunlight.
Lars Saabye Christensen
When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I hope you know I love you, not just because I tell you so at every opportunity, but because I show you so as often as the sun sets.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Used to be hewas my heart's desire.His forthright gaze,his expert hands:I'd lie on the couch with my eyesclosed just thinking about it.Never about the factthat everything changes,that even this,my best passion,would not be immune.No, I would bask on in aneternal daydream of the handsfinding me, the gaze like a windingstair coaxing me down. . . .Until I caught a glimpseof something in the mirror:silly girl in her lingerie,dancing with the furniture--a hot little bundle, flush withcliches. Into that pairof too-bright eyes I lookedand saw myself. And something
Deborah Garrison
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singingbut more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
E.E. Cummings
In a sweet way, my thoughts, are embedded in love.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
perhaps like me she's vainly hopingand some news awaits,but the moist earth already holds himin her strong embrace...
Nikola Vaptsarov
A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume...
Amy Lowell
I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.
Andrea Gibson
We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.
Jay Woodman
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
Thomas M. Disch
For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
John Oxenham
Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's riverRising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat!" - Chorus
Sophocles
I played God todayAnd it was fun!I made animals that men had never seenSo they would stop and scratch their headsInstead of scowling.I made words that men had never heardSo they would stop and stare at meInstead of running.And I made love that laughedSo men would giggle like childrenInstead of sighing.Tomorrow, perhaps, I won't be GodAnd you will know itBecause you won't see any three-headed catsOr bushes with bells on...I wish I could always play GodSo that lonely men could laugh!
James Kavanaugh
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Amy King
Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.
Suzy Kassem
The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B. Yeats
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
Allen Ginsberg
Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.
Suzy Kassem
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Criss Jami
That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though naturally not inclined to 'fall in love' in this direction, such men are by their nature drawn rather near to women, and it would seem that they often feel a singular appreciation and understanding of the emotional needs and destinies of the other sex, leading in many cases to a genuine though what is called 'Platonic' friendship. There is little doubt that they are often instinctively sought after by women, who, without suspecting the real cause, are conscious of a sympathetic chord in the homogenic which they miss in the normal man.
Edward Carpenter
Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.
Aberjhani
Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Buddy Wakefield
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
The invitation of the keyword “Inspiration” is to ask how we can be uplifted, encouraged, motivated, and moved deeply in ways that allow us to be invigorated or energized to love our life and live with more passion, awareness, confidence, creativity and happiness." ~ David Lawrence Brown 333 Keywords to Change Your Life
David Lawrence Brown
Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
John Milton