Famous quotes by Poets

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"The moving finger writes, and having written, moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

Alfred Noyes

"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

Alfred Noyes

"Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

Alfred Noyes

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess"

Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet

Juan Ramon Jimenez

"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"Time marks us while we are marking time"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"A mind too active is no mind at all"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Culture makes all men gentle"

Menander, Poet

Menander

"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"After every war, someone has to tidy up"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

Wislawa Szymborska

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture"

Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet

Juan Ramon Jimenez

"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

Wislawa Szymborska

"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

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