Famous quotes by Poets

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"I believe that every person is born with talent"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"All great achievements require time"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"Come, Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"The future is no more uncertain than the present"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

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

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"I bend and do not break"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze"

Horace, Poet

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant"

Horace, Poet

"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 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

"Dying is a wild night and a new road"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"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

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

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"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

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

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

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

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

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