Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 192

• Kiki Dimoula / Poet

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.

• Langston Hughes / Poet

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

• Langston Hughes / Poet

Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

• Leonora Speyer / Poet

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

• Louis Dudek / Poet

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

• Louis Macneice / Poet

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

• Louise Glück / Poet

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

• Lucille Clifton / Poet

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

• Luis Munoz Marin / Poet

We must live like angels and produce like the devil!

• Mahmoud Darwish / Poet

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

• Mahmoud Darwish / Poet

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

• Manuel Maria Barbosa Du Bocage / Poet

May be able to die those who didn't know how to live

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

• Marge Piercy / Poet

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

• Marguerite Young / Poet

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

• Marianne Moore / Poet

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

• Marilyn Nelson / Poet

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

• Marina Tsvetaeva / Poet

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

• Marina Tsvetaeva / Poet

The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

• Mark Strand / Poet

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

• Marvin Bell / Poet

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

• Mary Caroline Richards / Poet

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

• Mary Oliver / Poet

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

• Mary Oliver / Poet

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

• Mary Oliver / Poet

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

• Matsuo Basho / Poet

All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.

• May Sarton / Poet

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

• Meghan O'rourke / Poet

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

• Michael Franti / Poet

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

• Michaela Coel / Poet

I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.

• Moses Ibn Ezra / Poet

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

• Naomi Shihab Nye / Poet

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux / Poet

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

• Norman Maccaig / Poet

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

• Novalis / Poet

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

• Novalis / Poet

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

• Octavio Paz / Poet

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

• Ogden Nash / Poet

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

• Ogden Nash / Poet

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

• Ogden Nash / Poet

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

• Ovid / Poet

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.