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Famous quotes by Poets

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"
Lord Byron, Poet
Lord Byron
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"Fame is the thirst of youth"
Lord Byron, Poet
Lord Byron
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"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
Kahlil Gibran
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"The eyes have one language everywhere"
George Herbert, Poet
George Herbert
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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit"
George Herbert, Poet
George Herbert
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"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"
Alexander Pope, Poet
Alexander Pope
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"Nothing will work unless you do"
Maya Angelou, Poet
Maya Angelou
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"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned"
Maya Angelou, Poet
Maya Angelou
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"The burden which is well borne becomes light"
Ovid, Poet
Ovid
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
William Butler Yeats
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"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
Muhammad Iqbal
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals"
Roger McGough, Poet
Roger McGough
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it"
Roger McGough, Poet
Roger McGough
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"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself within a dark wood, where the straight way was lost"
Dante Alighieri, Poet
Dante Alighieri
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"He listens well who takes notes"
Dante Alighieri, Poet
Dante Alighieri
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
T. S. Eliot
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide"
John Dryden, Poet
John Dryden
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"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"
Stanislaw Lec, Poet
Stanislaw Lec
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"Fortune befriends the bold"
Emily Dickinson, Poet
Emily Dickinson
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"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat"
Ogden Nash, Poet
Ogden Nash
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"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life"
Arthur Rimbaud, Poet
Arthur Rimbaud
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"I is another"
Arthur Rimbaud, Poet
Arthur Rimbaud
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"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"
John Milton, Poet
John Milton
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination"
John Keats, Poet
John Keats
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"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"
Allen Ginsberg, Poet
Allen Ginsberg
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