Famous quotes by Poets

"I fear God, and next to God, I mostly fear them that fear him not"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"None knows the weight of another's burden"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit, and easiness more than knowledge"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"You can learn from anyone, even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny, like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled"

Horace, Poet

"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"The first requisite for immortality is death"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

Stanislaw Lec

"Light is the symbol of truth"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"Our Father, which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The middle course is the best"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

"He was as fresh as is the month of May"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"The historian is a prophet looking backward"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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