Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 4

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

Beauty is not caused. It is.

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

My friends are my estate.

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

• Emily Dickinson / Poet

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

• Ellen Bass / Poet

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

• Edwin Muir / Poet

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

• Edwin Markham / Poet

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

• Edwin Arlington Robinson / Poet

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

• Edna St. Vincent Millay / Poet

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

• Edgar Lee Masters / Poet

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

• Edgar Guest / Poet

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

• Dorothy Parker / Poet

Work is the province of cattle.

• Dorothy Parker / Poet

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

• Delmore Schwartz / Poet

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

• Delmore Schwartz / Poet

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

• Dejan Stojanovic / Poet

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face.

• Dante Alighieri / Poet

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

• Charles Peguy / Poet

Freedom is a system based on courage.

• Charles Bukowski / Poet

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

• Charles Baudelaire / Poet

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

• Carol Lynn Pearson / Poet

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

• Bertolt Brecht / Poet

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

• Benjamin Alire Saenz / Poet

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

• Ben Okri / Poet

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

• Arrigo Boito / Poet

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

• Antonio Porchia / Poet

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

• Anne Waldman / Poet

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

• Anne Bradstreet / Poet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

• Anatole France / Poet

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

• Anatole France / Poet

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

• Anatole France / Poet

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

• Anatole France / Poet

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

• Allen Tate / Poet

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

The most positive men are the most credulous.

• Alden Nowlan / Poet

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.