Famous quotes by Poets

"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

"The Ego is partly free, partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

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

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"God is not a dead equation!"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one, breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"I am a part of all that I have met"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"All experience is an arch, wherethrough gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Love is the only gold"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed"

Horace, Poet

"Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

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