Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Poets - Page 2
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War is like love; it always finds a way.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
They can conquer who believe they can.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
My feelings are too loud for words
And too shy for the world.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Deserve your dream.
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Time and tide wait for no man.
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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.
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night;
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light.
We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Shadow owes its birth to light.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
