Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 124

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

• Eustache Deschamps / Poet

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

• Fernando Pessoa / Poet

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

• Fernando Pessoa / Poet

Faithful to the word given and the idea had.

• Fernando Pessoa / Poet

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

• Francis Quarles / Poet

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

• Francis Thompson / Poet

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

• Franz Wright / Poet

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

• Fred D'aguiar / Poet

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

The May of life blooms once and never again.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

The world's history is the world's judgment.

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

Misery travels free through the whole world!

• Friedrich Schiller / Poet

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

• Gary Snyder / Poet

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

We little know the things for which we pray.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

• George Herbert / Poet

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

• George Herbert / Poet

Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

• George Herbert / Poet

It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

• George Herbert / Poet

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

• George Herbert / Poet

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

• George Herbert / Poet

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

• George Herbert / Poet

Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

• George Herbert / Poet

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

• George Herbert / Poet

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

• George Herbert / Poet

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

• George Herbert / Poet

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

• George Herbert / Poet

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

• George Herbert / Poet

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

• George Herbert / Poet

Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.

• George Herbert / Poet

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

• George Herbert / Poet

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

• George Herbert / Poet

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

• George Herbert / Poet

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

• George Herbert / Poet

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.

• George Herbert / Poet

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

• George Herbert / Poet

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

• George Herbert / Poet

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

• George Herbert / Poet

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

• Gerald Massey / Poet

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.