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Famous quotes by Poets

PoetsPoets distill experience into language that sings, offering flashes of clarity and wonder that outlast the moment. Gathered voices from many eras and cultures reveal how verse touches love and grief, nature and justice, silence and sound. Their lines invite reflection, comfort, and a renewed attention to the world we share. Whether you return to familiar names or meet new ones, let the words breathe at your pace, pause where they resonate, and carry the images and questions that follow into your own day.
"In me the tiger sniffs the rose"
Siegfried Sassoon, Poet
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"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
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"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"
Marion C. Garretty, Poet
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
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"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it"
Jean de La Fontaine, Poet
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"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"
Euripides, Poet
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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"Beware the fury of a patient man"
John Dryden, Poet
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"Living well is the best revenge"
George Herbert, Poet
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
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"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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"The only journey is the one within"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet
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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"
Stanislaw Lec, Poet
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"It is better to learn late than never"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
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"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor"
Euripides, Poet
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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire"
William Blake, Poet
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"
Robert Frost, Poet
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table"
W. H. Auden, Poet
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"He is not a lover who does not love forever"
Euripides, Poet
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"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost"
Marion C. Garretty, Poet
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"Order is heaven's first law"
Alexander Pope, Poet
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"Be curious, not judgmental"
Walt Whitman, Poet
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"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"
Edward Young, Poet
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"The devil is compromise"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
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"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise"
William Blake, Poet
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"The best way out is always through"
Robert Frost, Poet
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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
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"Grub first, then ethics"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
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"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it"
Lucy Larcom, Poet
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