Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 119

• Sherman Alexie / Poet

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

• Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz / Poet

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

• Steve Roggenbuck / Poet

Some days success just means not giving up.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

• Ted Berrigan / Poet

I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.

• Theodore Roethke / Poet

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

• Theodore Roethke / Poet

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

• Thomas Buchanan Read / Poet

The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

• Thomas Campbell / Poet

His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.

• Thomas Campbell / Poet

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

• Thomas Lynch / Poet

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

• Thomas Tusser / Poet

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

• Tobias Smollett / Poet

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

• Tony Harrison / Poet

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

• Vanna Bonta / Poet

There is no hospitality like understanding.

• Vanna Bonta / Poet

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

What makes night within us may leave stars.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

• Victoria Chang / Poet

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

• Victoria Chang / Poet

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

• Virgil / Poet

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

• Virgil / Poet

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

• Virgil / Poet

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

• Virgil / Poet

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

• Virgil / Poet

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

• Virgil / Poet

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

The imagination is man's power over nature.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

These are the days that must happen to you.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

• Wanda Coleman / Poet

usta be young usta be gifted - still black.