Famous quotes by Poets

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back"

Horace, Poet

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure"

Horace, Poet

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it"

Horace, Poet

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

Horace, Poet

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Wonder is involuntary praise"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

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

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company, by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Dying is a wild night and a new road"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"Words make love with one another"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Love is so simple"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

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

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

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