Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 171

• Stanley Kunitz / Poet

I like an ending that's both a door and a window.

• Stanley Kunitz / Poet

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

• Stanley Kunitz / Poet

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

• Stephane Mallarme / Poet

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

• Stephane Mallarme / Poet

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

• Stephen Levine / Poet

Love is not what we become but who we already are

• Susanna Centlivre / Poet

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

• Ted Berrigan / Poet

Whatever is going to happen is already happening.

• Thiruvalluvar / Poet

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

• Thom Gunn / Poet

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

• Thomas Traherne / Poet

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

• Thomas Tusser / Poet

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

• Tony Harrison / Poet

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

• Vanna Bonta / Poet

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To love another person is to see the face of God.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

• Victor Hugo / Poet

There are things stronger than the strongest man.

• Virgil / Poet

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

• Virgil / Poet

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

• W. S. Merwin / Poet

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

• Wallace Stevens / Poet

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

• Wilfred Owen / Poet

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

• William Blake / Poet

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

• William Blake / Poet

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

• William Blake / Poet

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

• William Blake / Poet

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

• William C. Bryant / Poet

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

• William Cowper / Poet

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

• William Cowper / Poet

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

• William Cowper / Poet

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

• William Ernest Henley / Poet

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.