Famous quotes by Poets

"Fame is the thirst of youth"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Absence - that common cure of love"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins!"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Faith is an oasis in the heart, which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"I fear God, and next to God, I mostly fear them that fear him not"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit, and easiness more than knowledge"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"You can learn from anyone, even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny, like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web"

Roger McGough, Poet

Roger McGough

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Authority forgets a dying king"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled"

Horace, Poet

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"The first requisite for immortality is death"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

Stanislaw Lec

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"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

"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

Jacques Prevert

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

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