Quotes by Poet of the Authors - Page 99

• Samuel Ibn Naghrillah / Poet

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

• Seamus Heaney / Poet

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

• Seamus Heaney / Poet

I've been in the habit of helping people.

• Shel Silverstein / Poet

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

• Siddharth Katragadda / Poet

Religion is god's population-control tool

• Silius Italicus / Poet

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

• Stan Rice / Poet

And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

• Stanley Kunitz / Poet

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

• Stephane Mallarme / Poet

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

• Susanna Centlivre / Poet

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

There is more than one good way to drown.

• Sylvia Plath / Poet

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

• Ted Hughes / Poet

What happens in the heart simply happens.

• Theodore Roethke / Poet

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

• Theodore Roethke / Poet

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

• Thomas Campbell / Poet

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

• Thomas Gray / Poet

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

• Thomas Gray / Poet

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

• Thomas Gray / Poet

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

• Thomas Overbury / Poet

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

• Thomas Tusser / Poet

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

• Tony Harrison / Poet

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

• Torquato Tasso / Poet

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

• Vanna Bonta / Poet

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

• Vanna Bonta / Poet

Self worship is different from self love.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The true artist can only labor con amore.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

God knows better than we do what we need.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

• Victor Hugo / Poet

God made the water but men made the wine.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

• Virgil / Poet

We have to thank God for this retirement.

• Virgil / Poet

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

In life the loser's score is always zero.

• W. H. Auden / Poet

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.