Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 462

• John Ciardi / Poet

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

• John Denham / Poet

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

• John Donne / Poet

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

• John Donne / Poet

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

• John Donne / Poet

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

• John Donne / Poet

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

• John Drinkwater / Poet

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

• John Dryden / Poet

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

• John Dryden / Poet

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

• John Dryden / Poet

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

• John Dryden / Poet

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

• John Dryden / Poet

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

• John Dryden / Poet

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

• John Gay / Poet

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

• John Godfrey Saxe / Poet

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

• John Keats / Poet

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

• John Keats / Poet

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

• John Keble / Poet

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

• John Masefield / Poet

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

• John Milton / Poet

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

• John Milton / Poet

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

• John Milton / Poet

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

• John Milton / Poet

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

• John Milton / Poet

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

• John Milton / Poet

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

• John Wilmot / Poet

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

• Jones Very / Poet

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

• June Jordan / Poet

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

• Juvenal / Poet

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

• Juvenal / Poet

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

• Juvenal / Poet

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

• Juvenal / Poet

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

• Juvenal / Poet

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

• Kabir / Poet

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

• Kate Tempest / Poet

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

• Katy Lederer / Poet

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

• Kenneth Koch / Poet

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

• Kofi Awoonor / Poet

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.