Famous quotes by Poets

"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

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"The poetry of the earth is never dead"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Safeguard the health both of body and soul"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"Even paranoids have real enemies"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

Delmore Schwartz

"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"By associating with wise people, you will become wise yourself"

Menander, Poet

Menander

"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"Deserve your dream"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope"

Wendell Berry, Poet

Wendell Berry

"Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection"

Pindar, Poet

"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet, with needles in their jaws and feet"

Pam Brown, Poet

Pam Brown

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure"

Abraham Cowley, Poet

Abraham Cowley

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home"

Pam Brown, Poet

Pam Brown

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet"

Torquato Tasso, Poet

"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university, a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see"

John Masefield, Poet

John Masefield

"'Extremes meet,' as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth"

Thomas Hood, Poet

Thomas Hood

"No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been"

Adelaide Anne Procter, Poet

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends"

Jacques Delille, Poet

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck"

James Whitcomb Riley, Poet

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