Famous quotes by Poets

"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost"

May Sarton, Poet

May Sarton

"Learn what you are and be such"

Pindar, Poet

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go"

Langston Hughes, Poet

Langston Hughes

"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Poet

Marcus Valerius Martial

"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door"

Torquato Tasso, Poet

"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now"

Rita Dove, Poet

"I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do, I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through"

Richard Armour, Poet

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"Wine is a peep-hole on a man"

Alcaeus, Poet

Alcaeus

"Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them"

William Falconer, Poet

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will"

James Stephens, Poet

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do"

Mark Van Doren, Poet

"Virtue herself is her own fairest reward"

Silius Italicus, Poet

"From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy"

James Beattie, Poet

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance"

A. R. Ammons, Poet

"Hitler bombed London into submission, but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"A promise made is a debt unpaid"

Robert Service, Poet

"The Lord survives the rainbow of His will"

Robert Lowell, Poet

"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun"

Christina G. Rossetti, Poet

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail"

Muriel Strode, Poet

"Some things have to be believed to be seen"

Ralph Hodgson, Poet

"Man is what he reads"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank"

Dante G. Rossetti, Poet

"This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind"

Stevie Smith, Poet

"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all"

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Poet

"Men at forty learn to close softly the doors to rooms they will not be coming back to"

Donald Justice, Poet

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