Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 126

• John Clare / Poet

And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

• John Cooper Clarke / Poet

I'm dead fussy about food: I don't eat junk.

• John Donne / Poet

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

• John Dryden / Poet

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

• John Dryden / Poet

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

• John Dryden / Poet

He made all countries where he came his own.

• John Dryden / Poet

My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

• John Dryden / Poet

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

• John Dryden / Poet

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

• John Dryden / Poet

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

• John Gardiner Calkins Brainard / Poet

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

• John Keats / Poet

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

• John Keats / Poet

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

• John Keats / Poet

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

• John Keats / Poet

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

• John Keats / Poet

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

• John Keats / Poet

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

• John L'heureux / Poet

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

• John Milton / Poet

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

• John Milton / Poet

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

• John Milton / Poet

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

• John Milton / Poet

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

• John Milton / Poet

And out of good still to find means of evil.

• John Milton / Poet

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

• John Wilmot / Poet

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

• Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur / Poet

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

• June Jordan / Poet

We survive our love because we go on loving.

• Juvenal / Poet

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

• Juvenal / Poet

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

• Juvenal / Poet

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

• Juvenal / Poet

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

• Juvenal / Poet

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

• Kabir / Poet

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

• Karl Ludwig Von Knebel / Poet

The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

In true prose everything must be underlined.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

• Kathleen Norris / Poet

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

• Kelli Russell Agodon / Poet

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

• Kwame Dawes / Poet

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Poet

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.