Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Poets - Page 16

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

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

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

By all means use some time to be alone.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The best of healers is good cheer.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.