Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Poets - Page 15

I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Life eats life to live.

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write poems. I believe this because I am quite sure poetry can do something no other form or writing, or human activity, can, at least not in such a powerful and distilled and undeniable way. And that we need this type of thinking for our survival as individuals and as a species.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.