Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 559

• William Shakespeare / Poet

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

• William Shakespeare / Poet

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

• William Shakespeare / Poet

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

• William Shenstone / Poet

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

• William Shenstone / Poet

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

• William Stafford / Poet

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.

• William Wordsworth / Poet

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

• Wislawa Szymborska / Poet

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

• X. J. Kennedy / Poet

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

• Yehuda Amichai / Poet

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

• A. C. Benson / Poet

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

• A. E. Housman / Poet

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

• A. E. Housman / Poet

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

• A. R. Ammons / Poet

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

• A. R. Ammons / Poet

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

• Adrienne Rich / Poet

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

• Adrienne Rich / Poet

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

• Alan Seeger / Poet

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

• Alfred De Vigny / Poet

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

• Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

• Alfred Noyes / Poet

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

• Allen Ginsberg / Poet

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

• Andrea Gibson / Poet

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

• Andrew Lang / Poet

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

• Anne Michaels / Poet

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

• Anne Waldman / Poet

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

• Antonio Porchia / Poet

The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

• Archibald Macleish / Poet

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

• Archibald Rutledge / Poet

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

• Ben Okri / Poet

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

• Ben Okri / Poet

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

• Bertolt Brecht / Poet

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

• Billy Collins / Poet

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

• Bliss Carman / Poet

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

• Brendan Behan / Poet

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

• C.p. Cavafy / Poet

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

• Carol Ann Duffy / Poet

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

• Caroline Anne Southey / Poet

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

• Cate Marvin / Poet

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

• Cate Marvin / Poet

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

• Cesare Pavese / Poet

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.