Famous quotes by Poets

"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

"And he that strives to touch the stars, oft stumbles at a straw"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it"

Langston Hughes, Poet

Langston Hughes

"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"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

"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

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"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

"Authority forgets a dying king"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"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

"If you done it, it ain't bragging"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"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

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