Famous quotes by Poets

"Your silence will not protect you"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"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

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"I talk to God but the sky is empty"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"

Alfred Noyes, Poet

Alfred Noyes

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

Delmore Schwartz

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"One sword keeps another in the sheath"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination, full of hope"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Vision without power does bring moral elevation, but cannot give a lasting culture"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Poetry: the best words in the best order"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"The fall of dropping water wears away the stone"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

Arthur Rimbaud

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way"

Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet

Juan Ramon Jimenez

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

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