Famous quotes by Poets

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"It is not every question that deserves an answer"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twin"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"Be thrifty, but not covetous"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"If I do a poetry reading, I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes"

Horace, Poet

"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Nature is the art of God"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"We love because it's the only true adventure"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

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