Famous quotes by Poets

"Time, the devourer of all things"

Ovid, Poet

"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all"

Ovid, Poet

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose"

Ovid, Poet

"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are"

Ovid, Poet

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay"

Ovid, Poet

"Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs"

Ovid, Poet

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven, the world is for thee, thou art not for the world"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, in every atom slumbers the might of the self"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words and walk away with free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"If the object of poetry is to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, and the blood coursing in the veins of the moon"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Since love first made the breast an instrument of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang this mirror in your sight"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

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