Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 44

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

Sensibility is the power of woman.

• Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet

The worst of faces still is human.

• Johann Ludwig Tieck / Poet

The noble man is only God's image.

• John Betjeman / Poet

One mark of good verse is surprise

• John Boyle O'reilly / Poet

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

• John Clare / Poet

I am the self-consumer of my woes.

• John Cooper Clarke / Poet

My dad was an electrical engineer.

• John Dryden / Poet

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

• John Dryden / Poet

Politicians neither love nor hate.

• John Dryden / Poet

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

• John Dryden / Poet

There is a proud modesty in merit.

• John Dryden / Poet

But how can finite grasp Infinity?

• John Florio / Poet

Who has not served cannot command.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

This is truth the poet sings . . .

• John Keats / Poet

I have so much of you in my heart.

• John Keats / Poet

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

• John Keats / Poet

I want a brighter word than bright

• John Lydgate / Poet

Empty vessels make the most sound.

• John Milton / Poet

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

• John Milton / Poet

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

• John Milton / Poet

Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

• John Milton / Poet

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

• John Milton / Poet

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

• John Milton / Poet

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

• John Sinclair / Poet

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

• John Wilmot / Poet

Custom does often reason overrule.

• Joy Harjo / Poet

I started writing to save my life.

• Juvenal / Poet

Integrity is praised, and starves.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

Honor is the mysticism of legality

• Kay Ryan / Poet

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Your body is the harp of the soul.

• Kwame Dawes / Poet

Racist writing is a craft failure.

• Leigh Hunt / Poet

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

• Lizette Woodworth Reese / Poet

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

• Louise Imogen Guiney / Poet

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Support your libraries... or else!

• Mary Oliver / Poet

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

• May Sarton / Poet

What can I have that I still want?

• Muriel Rukeyser / Poet

Try to live as if there were a God

• Nathaniel Cotton / Poet

I stew all night in my own grease.

• Novalis / Poet

Play is experimenting with chance.

• Octavio Paz / Poet

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

• Octavio Paz / Poet

Loving means getting rid of names.

• Ogden Nash / Poet

All that glitters is sold as gold.

• Ovid / Poet

Time is generally the best doctor.

• Ovid / Poet

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

• Ovid / Poet

Little things please little minds.

• Ovid / Poet

The end doesn't justify the means.

• Ovid / Poet

Love is a kind of military service

• Ovid / Poet

Nothing is swifter than our years.