Famous quotes by Poets

"I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran"

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"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

"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"A friendship that, like love, is warm; A love, like friendship, steady"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Whom the gods love dies young"

Menander, Poet

Menander

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

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose"

John Gay, Poet

"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest"

John Gay, Poet

"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life"

Robert Southey, Poet

"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains"

Diane Ackerman, Poet

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do"

Rumi, Poet

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form"

Rumi, Poet

"Our pleasance here is all vain glory, this false world is but transitory"

William Dunbar, Poet

William Dunbar

"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?"

Yunus Emre, Poet

Yunus Emre

"Beauty is everlasting, and dust is for a time"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Charles Churchill, Poet

"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

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