Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 88

• Jean De La Fontaine / Poet

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

• Jean De La Fontaine / Poet

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

• Joanna Baillie / Poet

If my heart were not light, I would die.

• John Boyle O'reilly / Poet

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

• John Donne / Poet

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

• John Donne / Poet

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

• John Donne / Poet

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

• John Donne / Poet

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

• John Dryden / Poet

To die is landing on some distant shore.

• John Dryden / Poet

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

• John Dryden / Poet

Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

• John Dryden / Poet

They think too little who talk too much.

• John Dryden / Poet

Men are but children of a larger growth.

• John Dryden / Poet

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

• John Dryden / Poet

God never made his work for man to mend.

• John Gay / Poet

She who has never loved has never lived.

• John Keats / Poet

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

• John Kinsella / Poet

Without style, there can be no identity.

• John Marston / Poet

My side ain't chosen. My side was given.

• John Masefield / Poet

The days that make us happy make us wise

• John Milton / Poet

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

• John Milton / Poet

They also serve who only stand and wait.

• John Milton / Poet

That power Which erring men call Chance.

• John Milton / Poet

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

• John Milton / Poet

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

• John Milton / Poet

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

• John Milton / Poet

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

• John Milton / Poet

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

• John Milton / Poet

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

• Jose Marti / Poet

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

• Joseph Brodsky / Poet

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

• Juana Inés De La Cruz / Poet

... privation is the source of appetite.

• Juvenal / Poet

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

• Kabir / Poet

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

• Kabir / Poet

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

• Karl Shapiro / Poet

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

• Kenneth Koch / Poet

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

• Lucille Clifton / Poet

You cannot play for safety and make art.

• Malcolm Lowry / Poet

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore / Poet

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

poetry is where the language is renewed.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

War is what happens when language fails.