Famous quotes by Poets

"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"If you done it, it ain't bragging"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves are triumph and defeat"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"In my beginning is my end"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

Arthur Rimbaud

"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

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

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

Robert Southey, Poet

"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"A heart makes a good home for the friend"

Yunus Emre, Poet

Yunus Emre

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