Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 154

• Moses Ibn Ezra / Poet

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.

• Moses Ibn Ezra / Poet

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

• Muriel Rukeyser / Poet

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

• Nancy Byrd Turner / Poet

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

• Naomi Shihab Nye / Poet

I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.

• Nicole Brossard / Poet

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

• Norman Maccaig / Poet

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

• Novalis / Poet

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

• Ogden Nash / Poet

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

• Ovid / Poet

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

• Ovid / Poet

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

• Ovid / Poet

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

• Ovid / Poet

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

• Ovid / Poet

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

• Ovid / Poet

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

• Ovid / Poet

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

• Ovid / Poet

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

• Ovid / Poet

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

• Paul Muldoon / Poet

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

• Paul Reps / Poet

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

• Paul Valery / Poet

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

• Paul Valery / Poet

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

• Paul Valery / Poet

to live means to lack something at every moment

• Percy Bysshe Shelley / Poet

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

• Petrarch / Poet

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

You can't put off being young until you retire.

• Philip Sidney / Poet

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

• Phineas Fletcher / Poet

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

• Propertius / Poet

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

• Propertius / Poet

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

• Rachel Zucker / Poet

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

• Randall Jarrell / Poet

A person is a process, one that leads to death.

• Richard Chenevix Trench / Poet

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

• Richard Henry Stoddard / Poet

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

• Richard Hugo / Poet

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1St Baron Houghton / Poet

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

• Richard Siken / Poet

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

• Rita Dove / Poet

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

• Robert Bly / Poet

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

• Robert Bly / Poet

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

• Robert Browning / Poet

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

• Robert Browning / Poet

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

• Robert Browning / Poet

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

• Robert Fitzgerald / Poet

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

• Robert Frost / Poet

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

• Robert Frost / Poet

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.