Famous quotes by Poets

"Love is so simple"

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

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

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Character and fate are two words for the same thing"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"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

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no, just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"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 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

"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"Even paranoids have real enemies"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

Delmore Schwartz

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere"

Philip Larkin, Poet

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

Philip Larkin, Poet

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

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Safeguard the health both of body and soul"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"They talk most who have the least to say"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument about it and about, but evermore came out by the same door as in I went"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"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

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

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Deserve your dream"

Octavio Paz, Poet

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

Pam Brown, Poet

Pam Brown

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still"

Charles Churchill, 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

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

Pam Brown, Poet

Pam Brown

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