Famous quotes by Poets

"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

Henrik Ibsen

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

Henrik Ibsen

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Follow your own star!"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Nothing recedes like progress"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky, and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

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