Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.
Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth?
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...
I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Children bring their own love with them when they come.
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.