Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Poets - Page 3

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came to an end and it is history.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

A joke's a very serious thing.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

For a true artist, life is a real academy. I am always both a student and a teacher. I have been teaching art to children since the age of eight. Now I am a co-founder of Akiane Arts School at Foreli Academy, where we are now enrolling students.

We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Without hope we are lost.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.