Famous quotes by Poets

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Art lies by its own artifice"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"In the midst of vice, we are in virtue, and vice versa"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Self-preservation is the first law of nature"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"All truth is not to be told at all times"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

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