Famous quotes by Poets

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"God will forgive me. It's his job"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

Heinrich Heine

"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

Hilaire Belloc

"Poetry is life distilled"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"How shall a man escape from that which is written; how shall he flee from his destiny?"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

Lucy Larcom

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight"

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

Marion C. Garretty

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"It is better to rust out than wear out"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself"

Louis Aragon, Poet

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

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