Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 437

• James Russell Lowell / Poet

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

• James Russell Lowell / Poet

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

• Jean Antoine Petit-Senn / Poet

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

• Jean Antoine Petit-Senn / Poet

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

• Jean De La Fontaine / Poet

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

• Jean De La Fontaine / Poet

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

• Jean Toomer / Poet

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

• Jill Alexander Essbaum / Poet

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

• John Ciardi / Poet

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

• John Ciardi / Poet

The thing about cats, as you may find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

• John Clare / Poet

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

• John Cooper Clarke / Poet

I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish.

• John Denham / Poet

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

• John Donne / Poet

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

• John Donne / Poet

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

• John Donne / Poet

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

• John Donne / Poet

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

• John Dryden / Poet

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

• John Dryden / Poet

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

• John Dryden / Poet

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

• John Dryden / Poet

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

• John Dryden / Poet

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

• John Dryden / Poet

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

• John Dryden / Poet

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

• John Milton / Poet

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

• John Milton / Poet

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

• John Milton / Poet

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

• John Milton / Poet

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

• John Milton / Poet

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

• John Milton / Poet

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

• John Perry Barlow / Poet

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

• John Suckling / Poet

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

• John Wilmot / Poet

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

• John Wilmot / Poet

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

• Juvenal / Poet

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

• Juvenal / Poet

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

• Juvenal / Poet

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

• Juvenal / Poet

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

• K'naan / Poet

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

• Langston Hughes / Poet

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

• Lisel Mueller / Poet

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.