Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 150

• Berthold Auerbach / Poet

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

• Berthold Auerbach / Poet

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

• Bertolt Brecht / Poet

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

• Bertolt Brecht / Poet

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

• Bertolt Brecht / Poet

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

• Boris Pasternak / Poet

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

• Brendan Behan / Poet

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

• Carol Ann Duffy / Poet

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

• Catullus / Poet

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

• Catullus / Poet

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

• Charles Baudelaire / Poet

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

• Charles Bukowski / Poet

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

• Charles Bukowski / Poet

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.

• Charles Churchill / Poet

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

• Charles Olson / Poet

I was playing catch with the European audience.

• Charles Wesley / Poet

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

• Charles Wesley / Poet

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

• Christina Rossetti / Poet

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

• Christoph Martin Wieland / Poet

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes / Poet

A runner is real when she takes the first step.

• Corinne Roosevelt Robinson / Poet

Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.

• Cornelius Gallus / Poet

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

• Dante Alighieri / Poet

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

• Dante Alighieri / Poet

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

• David Budbill / Poet

Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.

• David Shapiro / Poet

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

• Dejan Stojanovic / Poet

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk.

• Dejan Stojanovic / Poet

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

• Dejan Stojanovic / Poet

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

• Dejan Stojanovic / Poet

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

• Donald Hall / Poet

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

• Dylan Thomas / Poet

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

great men burn bridges before they come to them

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

• E. E. Cummings / Poet

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

• Edmund Clarence Stedman / Poet

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

• Edmund Smith / Poet

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

• Edward Young / Poet

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

• Edward Young / Poet

They build too low who build beneath the skies.

• Edward Young / Poet

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

• Edwin Hubbel Chapin / Poet

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Poet

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

• Ernest Dowson / Poet

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.