Famous quotes by Poets

"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

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

Horace, Poet

"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

"Nature is the art of God"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other, for the profit of people who know each other, but don't massacre each other"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"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

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"Literature is news that stays news"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations"

Henry Reed, Poet

Henry Reed

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"If a thing loves, it is infinite"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"The eye altering, alters all"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Speech is the mirror of the soul"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Knowledge, like timber, shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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