Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 428

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

• John Ciardi / Poet

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

• John Cooper Clarke / Poet

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

• John Cooper Clarke / Poet

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

• John Donne / Poet

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

• John Donne / Poet

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

• John Donne / Poet

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

• John Donne / Poet

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

• John Dryden / Poet

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

• John Dryden / Poet

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

• John Dryden / Poet

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

• John Dryden / Poet

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

• John Dryden / Poet

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

• John Dryden / Poet

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

• John Dryden / Poet

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

• John Dryden / Poet

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

• John Dryden / Poet

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

• John Dryden / Poet

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

• John Gay / Poet

Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

• John Godfrey Saxe / Poet

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

• John Keats / Poet

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

• John Keats / Poet

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

• John Milton / Poet

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

• John Milton / Poet

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

• John Milton / Poet

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

• John Milton / Poet

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

• John Milton / Poet

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

• John Milton / Poet

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

• John Milton / Poet

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

• John Milton / Poet

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

• John Milton / Poet

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

• Jose Marti / Poet

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

• Jose Marti / Poet

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

• Juana Inés De La Cruz / Poet

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

• Juvenal / Poet

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

• Juvenal / Poet

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

• Juvenal / Poet

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

• Juvenal / Poet

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

• K'naan / Poet

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

• Karle Wilson Baker / Poet

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

• Kathleen Norris / Poet

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

• Kenneth Rexroth / Poet

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.