Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 144

• John Dryden / Poet

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

• John Dryden / Poet

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

• John Dryden / Poet

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

• John Dryden / Poet

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

• John Dryden / Poet

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

• John Fuller / Poet

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

• John Gardiner Calkins Brainard / Poet

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

• John Godfrey Saxe / Poet

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

• John Keats / Poet

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

• John Keats / Poet

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

• John Keats / Poet

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

• John Keats / Poet

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

• John Keats / Poet

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

• John Marston / Poet

You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

• John Milton / Poet

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

• John Milton / Poet

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

• John Milton / Poet

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

• John Milton / Poet

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

• Jules Romains / Poet

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

• Juvenal / Poet

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

• Juvenal / Poet

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

• Juvenal / Poet

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

• Juvenal / Poet

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

• Juvenal / Poet

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

• Juvenal / Poet

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

• Kenneth Rexroth / Poet

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

• Langston Hughes / Poet

Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Poet

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

• Li Bai / Poet

Shade and light are different in every valley.

• Louise Bogan / Poet

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

• Louise Imogen Guiney / Poet

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

• Lucan / Poet

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

• Luis Alberto Urrea / Poet

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

• Lyn Hejinian / Poet

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

• Marie De France / Poet

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.