Famous quotes by Poets

"Little things please little minds"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"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

"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

"He conquers who endures"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"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

"The only certain freedoms in departure"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Don't think, just do"

Horace, Poet

"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away"

Luis Cernuda, Poet

Luis Cernuda

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Every harlot was a virgin once"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

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