Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.
And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.
Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.
Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.
And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.
It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.
The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.
To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.