Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 89

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

we lived in the gaps between the stories

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

• Marge Piercy / Poet

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

• Marge Piercy / Poet

History is a game played backwards only.

• Maria Gowen Brooks / Poet

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

• Mark Nepo / Poet

The humility of wonder opens everything.

• Mark Nepo / Poet

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

• Martial / Poet

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

• Martial / Poet

One genius has made many clever artists.

• Martial / Poet

I know all that better than my own name.

• Mary Oliver / Poet

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

• Matthew Arnold / Poet

Ah, love, let us be true To one another!

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

• Maxine Kumin / Poet

... people get confidential at midnight.

• May Sarton / Poet

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

• May Sarton / Poet

... love is healing, even rootless love.

• Michael Franti / Poet

Love is the action of soul satisfaction.

• Michael R. Burch / Poet

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

• Michaela Coel / Poet

'Chewing Gum' is the London that I know.

• Miller Williams / Poet

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

• Muriel Rukeyser / Poet

Reality is the completion of experience.

• Nicanor Parra / Poet

A poem should improve on the blank page.

• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux / Poet

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

• Ovid / Poet

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

• Ovid / Poet

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

• Ovid / Poet

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

• Ovid / Poet

Often a silent face has voice and words.

• Ovid / Poet

The rose is often found near the nettle.

• Ovid / Poet

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

• Ovid / Poet

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

• Ovid / Poet

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

• Ovid / Poet

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

• Ovid / Poet

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

• Paul Claudel / Poet

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley / Poet

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley / Poet

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley / Poet

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

• Peter Porter / Poet

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

• Peter Porter / Poet

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

• Petrarch / Poet

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

• Petrarch / Poet

For style beyond the genius never dares.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

It matters not how long we live but how.

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

I have a heart with room for every joy .

• Philip James Bailey / Poet

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

• Philip Larkin / Poet

But superstition, like belief, must die.

• Philip Sidney / Poet

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

• Pierre Reverdy / Poet

Creativity is to think more efficiently.