Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 106

• Kabir / Poet

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

• Kabir / Poet

The essence of life is in remembering God.

• Katha Pollitt / Poet

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

• Kenneth Patchen / Poet

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

• Kenneth Patchen / Poet

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

All work is empty save when there is love.

• Laura Riding / Poet

Women are strangers in the country of man.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

• Louise Imogen Guiney / Poet

Very few can be trusted with an education.

• Lucretius / Poet

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

• Mahmoud Darwish / Poet

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

A word after a word after a word is power.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I am not your justification for existence.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

• Mari Evans / Poet

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

The power of the visible is the invisible.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

There never was a war that was not inward.

• Marie De France / Poet

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

• Marilyn Hacker / Poet

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

• Mark Akenside / Poet

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

I would rather be fooled than not believe.

• Martial / Poet

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

• Martial / Poet

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

• Martial / Poet

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

• Martial / Poet

What quick wit is found in sudden straits!

• Martial / Poet

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

• Mary Oliver / Poet

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

• Mary Oliver / Poet

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

• Mary Ruefle / Poet

In the end I would rather wonder than know

• Mary Szybist / Poet

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

• Matthew Arnold / Poet

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

• Matthew Arnold / Poet

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

• Matthew Arnold / Poet

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

• May Sarton / Poet

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

• May Sarton / Poet

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

• Michael Franti / Poet

It's never too late to start the day over.

• Michaela Coel / Poet

Drama school taught me not to be precious.

• Mourid Barghouti / Poet

Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

• Muriel Rukeyser / Poet

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

• Natasha Trethewey / Poet

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux / Poet

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.