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A. E. Housman Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may ... Alexander Pope To err is human; to forgive, divine.... Alexander Pope The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learn... Alexander Pope Wit is the lowest form of humor.... Alfred Lord Tennyson Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dre... Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.... Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - y... Alice Duer Miller Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course... Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a su... Alice Duer Miller Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against o... Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother... Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record t... Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer ... Antonio Porchia Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flo... George Herbert War makes thieves and peace hangs them.... George Herbert Life is half spent before we know what it is.... Heinrich Heine If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would ... Heinrich Heine The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played wh... Heinrich Heine You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.... Heinrich Heine God will forgive me. It's his job.... Ausonius Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.... Bertolt Brecht Because things are the way they are, things will not stay ... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.... Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.... Carl Sandburg I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.... Carl Sandburg Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.... Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you hav... Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to... Carl Sandburg In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eye... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wa... Charles Baudelaire Always be a poet, even in prose.... Charles Baudelaire Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of r... Charles Simic Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equa... Charles Simic Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blan... Dante Alighieri The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who main... Dante Alighieri The secret of getting things done is to act!... Dante Alighieri Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast... Delmore Schwartz Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in ... Diane Ackerman Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be u... Diane Ackerman Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. ... Don Marquis Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal... Don Marquis Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that ... Don Marquis Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can ... Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, a... Don Marquis Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: alway... Edgar Allan Poe We loved with a love that was more than love.... Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.... Edgar Allan Poe Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which ... Edward Thomas The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence... e. e. cummings The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.... e. e. cummings Unbeing dead isn't being alive.... e. e. cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping... Elizabeth Barrett Browning God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Who so loves believes the impossible.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.... Emily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything... Emily Dickinson How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not i... Emily Dickinson Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought... Emily Dickinson The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.... Emily Dickinson Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.... Euripides No one can confidently say that he will still be living to... Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be... Euripides Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the o... Euripides Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head... Ezra Pound Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insis... Henry Austin Dobson Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.... Henry Van Dyke Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very sile... Henry Van Dyke Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to ... Henry Van Dyke Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love an... Henry Van Dyke Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those w... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it r... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you fri... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in... Horace Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.... Horace No poems can please for long or live that are written by w... Howard Nemerov Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, ... Ikkyu Sojun Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the... Ikkyu Sojun Only one koan matters - you.... James Russell Lowell Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppresso... James Russell Lowell Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly hap... James Whitcomb Riley When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered mind... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To rule is easy, to govern difficult.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberr... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the h... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepa... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love does not dominate; it cultivates.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and att... John Donne Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pl... John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.... John Dryden Love is love's reward.... John Dryden When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that ... John Dryden It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.... John Greenleaf Whittier Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.... John Greenleaf Whittier As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage th... John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead.... John Keats Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of ... John Keats Love is my religion - I could die for it.... John Leonard It takes a long time to grow an old friend.... John Leonard Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but fo... Jorge Luis Borges Democracy is an abuse of statistics.... Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.... Juvenal Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.... Kahlil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit... Kahlil Gibran Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with lov... Kahlil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward w... Kahlil Gibran What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murde... Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us pu... Kahlil Gibran Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his... Kahlil Gibran Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen... Kahlil Gibran Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.... Kahlil Gibran Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and l... Kahlil Gibran A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from... Kahlil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temp... Kahlil Gibran Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try... Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known w... Kahlil Gibran Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has adv... Kahlil Gibran For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt in... Kahlil Gibran Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin ... Kahlil Gibran Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet ... Kahlil Gibran Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash o... Kahlil Gibran The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into... Kahlil Gibran If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is... Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken w... Langston Hughes Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head wi... Langston Hughes Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in e... Lord Byron Adversity is the first path to truth.... Lord Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortu... Lord Byron They never fail who die in a great cause.... Lord Byron 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.... Lord Byron I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our l... Lord Byron I love not man the less, but Nature more.... Lord Byron If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.... Lord Byron To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my e... Lord Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet... Lord Byron This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or ... Lord Byron A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad... Lord Byron Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; w... Lord Byron He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were... Lord Byron Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is ... Lord Byron Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes lat... Lord Byron Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that imm... Lord Byron When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the ... Lord Byron The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!... Lord Byron A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of... Lord Byron Absence - that common cure of love.... Lord Byron Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, a... Lord Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In... Lord Byron The dew of compassion is a tear.... Lord Byron There is no instinct like that of the heart.... Lord Byron The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.... Lord Byron If I could always read, I should never feel the want of co... Lord Byron Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too!... Lord Byron To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.... Lord Byron A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it... Lord Byron Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.... Lord Byron A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.... Lord Byron In solitude, where we are least alone.... Lord Byron One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself ... Lord Byron I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probab... Lord Byron And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable qui... Lord Byron Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human l... Lord Byron Who loves, raves.... Lord Byron My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd... Lord Byron Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useles... Lord Byron It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a reb... Lord Byron I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as ma... Lord Byron Fame is the thirst of youth.... Lord Byron Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.... Lord Byron What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps th... Lord Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is... Lord Byron America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - w... Lord Byron I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-b... Lord Byron The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with h... Lord Byron Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions co... Lord Byron I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mer... Lord Byron Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumsta... Lord Byron Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so ... Lord Byron No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the in... Lord Byron There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum ... Lord Byron He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which emb... Lord Byron A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay i... Lord Byron Prolonged endurance tames the bold.... Lord Byron I am about to be married, and am of course in all the mise... Lord Byron Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?... Lord Byron To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.... Lord Byron Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter b... Lord Byron Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!... Lord Byron Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams li... Lord Byron A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, ... Lord Byron I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people,... Lord Byron All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a ... Lord Byron I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.... Lord Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scr... Lord Byron But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Exi... Lord Byron This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodie... Lord Byron For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering n... Lord Byron The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to ha... Lord Byron Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who ... Lord Byron Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there mu... Lord Byron Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night an... Lord Byron It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.... Lord Byron Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.... Lord Byron The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing... Lord Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but th... Lord Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to ... Lord Byron Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.... Lord Byron Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there i... Lord Byron We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others ... Lord Byron As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, ... Lord Byron I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.... Lord Byron Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got... Lord Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather... Lord Byron This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of... Lord Byron My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, ... Lord Byron I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.... Lord Byron The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.... Lord Byron Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.... Lord Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn t... Lord Byron The busy have no time for tears.... Lord Byron The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had ... Lord Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable ... Lord Byron Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, c... Lord Byron Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.... Lord Byron If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman ... Lord Byron Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vici... Lord Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to wel... Lord Byron Friendship is Love without his wings!... Lord Byron Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tr... Lord Byron In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is h... Lord Byron 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's ... Lord Byron Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening bea... Lord Byron What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of wh... Lord Byron Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those w... Lord Byron Let these describe the indescribable.... Lord Byron For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.... Lord Byron I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightfu... Lord Byron He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the... Lord Byron What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delic... Lord Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -yo... Lord Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though ... Lord Byron Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole ... Lord Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand flee... Lord Byron But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly... Marianne Moore Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real ... Matthew Arnold This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, ... Maya Angelou If you don't like something, change it. If you can't chang... Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between ... Maya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do.... Novalis The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist... Novalis Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.... Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an inv... Ovid Fortune and love favor the brave.... Ovid Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.... Ovid If you want to be loved, be lovable.... Paul Engle Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetr... Paul Valery The trouble with our times is that the future is not what ... Paul Valery An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abando... Paul Valery A poem is never finished, only abandoned.... Paul Valery God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness sh... Paul Valery The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.... Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaph... Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part ... Paul Valery Love is being stupid together.... Percy Bysshe Shelley History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is dis... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... Percy Bysshe Shelley Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that... Rabindranath Tagore Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the liste... Rabindranath Tagore The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time ... Rabindranath Tagore Age considers; youth ventures.... Rainer Maria Rilke Once the realization is accepted that even between the clo... Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices ... Rainer Maria Rilke Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touc... Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is one thing and varnish is another.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The years teach much which the days never knew.... Ralph Waldo Emerson All mankind love a lover.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We aim above the mark to hit the mark.... Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not length of life, but depth of life.... Ralph Waldo Emerson All life is an experiment.... Ralph Waldo Emerson People only see what they are prepared to see.... Ralph Waldo Emerson What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you sa... Ralph Waldo Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dre... Ralph Waldo Emerson Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're sayi... Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.... Ralph Waldo Emerson God enters by a private door into every individual.... Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.... Ralph Waldo Emerson When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Then beauty is its own excuse for being.... Ralph Waldo Emerson As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outv... Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in t... Ralph Waldo Emerson We are always getting ready to live but never living.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book enlightens the world.... Ralph Waldo Emerson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he ... Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Earth laughs in flowers.... Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can aff... Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his fri... Ralph Waldo Emerson Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to se... Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health.... Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising ... Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Science does not know its debt to imagination.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be our own before we can be another's.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The believing we do something when we do nothing is the fi... Ralph Waldo Emerson In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the eve... Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is what he thinks about all day long.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty without expression is boring.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All l... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every artist was first an amateur.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch your wagon to a star.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mi... Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of a thing well done is having done it.... Ralph Waldo Emerson With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state o... Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompa... Ralph Waldo Emerson We are rich only through what we give, and poor only throu... Ralph Waldo Emerson The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted ou... Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibr... Ralph Waldo Emerson A good indignation brings out all one's powers.... Ralph Waldo Emerson All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the god... Ralph Waldo Emerson The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devot... Ralph Waldo Emerson The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of... Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of h... Ralph Waldo Emerson An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, excep... Ralph Waldo Emerson Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monumen... Ralph Waldo Emerson People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they... Ralph Waldo Emerson People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work... Ralph Waldo Emerson The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But tha... Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a tendency for things to right themselves.... Ralph Waldo Emerson There is creative reading as well as creative writing.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it f... Ralph Waldo Emerson Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capita... Ralph Waldo Emerson Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the... Ralph Waldo Emerson For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty secon... Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be s... Ralph Waldo Emerson Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause a... Ralph Waldo Emerson He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learne... Ralph Waldo Emerson Unless you try to do something beyond what you have alread... Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a g... Ralph Waldo Emerson No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.... Ralph Waldo Emerson By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.... Ralph Waldo Emerson What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been disc... Ralph Waldo Emerson Some books leave us free and some books make us free.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Make yourself necessary to somebody.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain d... Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly... Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws... Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than hast... Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.... Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as there is life there is danger.... Ralph Waldo Emerson In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We do what we must, and call it by the best names.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure... Ralph Waldo Emerson Use what language you will, you can never say anything but... Ralph Waldo Emerson One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creati... Ralph Waldo Emerson We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man I meet is in some way my superior.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We are wiser than we know.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Always do what you are afraid to do.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the convic... Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will ma... Ralph Waldo Emerson Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what w... Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man is always willing to be little.... Ralph Waldo Emerson It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young per... Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.... Ralph Waldo Emerson All diseases run into one, old age.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Our best thoughts come from others.... Ralph Waldo Emerson In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than th... Ralph Waldo Emerson A chief event of life is the day in which we have encounte... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children th... Ralph Waldo Emerson No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of chara... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no r... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or a... Ralph Waldo Emerson Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass... Ralph Waldo Emerson This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but k... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that... Ralph Waldo Emerson The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions... Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Reality is a sliding door.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing... Ralph Waldo Emerson The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have lef... Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the w... Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that in... Ralph Waldo Emerson Good men must not obey the laws too well.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Money often costs too much.... Ralph Waldo Emerson As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson A great part of courage is the courage of having done the ... Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to... Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are all foreigners.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tens... Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.... Ralph Waldo Emerson When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius always finds itself a century too early.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by socie... Ralph Waldo Emerson Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city w... Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.... Ralph Waldo Emerson To know even one life has breathed easier because you have... Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.... Ralph Waldo Emerson God screens us evermore from premature ideas.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Be an opener of doors.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of... Ralph Waldo Emerson New York is a sucked orange.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no re... Ralph Waldo Emerson All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?... Ralph Waldo Emerson The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Ev... Ralph Waldo Emerson The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature hates calculators.... Ralph Waldo Emerson He builded better than he knew; the conscious stone to bea... Ralph Waldo Emerson We acquire the strength we have overcome.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Pictures must not be too picturesque.... Ralph Waldo Emerson What would be the use of immortality to a person who canno... Ralph Waldo Emerson The end of the human race will be that it will eventually ... Ralph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood.... Ralph Waldo Emerson We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.... Ralph Waldo Emerson America is another name for opportunity.... Ralph Waldo Emerson No change of circumstances can repair a defect of characte... Ralph Waldo Emerson Every hero becomes a bore at last.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The ancestor of every action is a thought.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are what their mothers made them.... Ralph Waldo Emerson For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.... Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of ... Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better... Ralph Waldo Emerson Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.... Ralph Waldo Emerson When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to d... Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the sa... Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will e... Ralph Waldo Emerson Revolutions go not backward.... Ralph Waldo Emerson The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not... Rene Char A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.... Richard Armour Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has ... Rita Dove Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful... Robert Browning Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.... Robert Browning God is the perfect poet.... Robert Browning Take away love and our earth is a tomb.... Robert Browning Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.... Robert Browning Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a c... Robert Frost In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about ... Robert Frost The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the mome... Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything with... Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in translation.... Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually... Robert Frost It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on eart... Robert Frost Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the th... Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.... Robert Frost To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.... Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthda... Robert Frost I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.... Robert Frost Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.... Robert Frost Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truth... Rupert Brooke Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the su... Rupert Brooke A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years... Samuel Butler To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is go... Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning ... Samuel Butler God cannot alter the past, though historians can.... Samuel Butler A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should ce... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a so... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls... Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We gr... Sidney Lanier Music is love in search of a word.... Sidney Lanier Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly ... Sidney Lanier If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.... Sophocles Wisdom outweighs any wealth.... Sophocles Success is dependent on effort.... Stanislaw Lec When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground... Stanislaw Lec Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.... Thomas Gray Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.... T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens... T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts.... T. S. Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape fr... T. S. Eliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the... T. S. Eliot Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flour... T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.... T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we di... Virgil Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear th... Virgil Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to re... Virgil They can conquer who believe they can.... Virgil Age carries all things away, even the mind.... Virgil Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to im... Virgil As the twig is bent the tree inclines.... Virgil Thus shall you go to the stars.... Virgil Time passes irrevocably.... Virgil Here I am who did the deed.... Virgil Trust not to much to appearances.... Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower o... Virgil Each of us bears his own Hell.... Virgil Time is flying never to return.... Virgil Love conquers all.... Virgil A feeble dart short of its mark.... Virgil A fickle and capricious woman.... Virgil A precious pair of scamps.... Virgil A woman the leader of the enterprise.... Virgil All our sweetest hours fly fastest.... Virgil All things deteriorate in time.... Virgil And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.... Virgil Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.... Virgil Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?... Virgil Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endur... Virgil Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.... Virgil Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.... Virgil Endure the present, and watch for better things.... Virgil Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.... Virgil Every man makes a god of his own desire.... Virgil Every sound alarms.... Virgil Fortune favours the bold.... Virgil From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the g... Virgil Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.... Virgil Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.... Virgil Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you o... Virgil He enters the port with a full sail.... Virgil He follows his father, but with shorter strides.... Virgil He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.... Virgil He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by... Virgil He talks nonsense.... Virgil Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your... Virgil His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure i... Virgil Hug the shore; let others try the deep.... Virgil I shudder when relating it.... Virgil I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of the... Virgil If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.... Virgil Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.... Virgil In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was us... Virgil In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery on... Virgil Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our yo... Virgil Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unf... Virgil Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arm... Virgil O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that h... Virgil Of such importance is early training.... Virgil One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.... Virgil Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with hi... Virgil Passion and strife bow down the mind.... Virgil Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these suff... Virgil She acquires momentum as she advances.... Virgil The accursed hunger for gold.... Virgil The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to... Virgil The goddess was discovered by her gait.... Virgil Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.... Virgil There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.... Virgil They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep.... Virgil They succeed, because they think they can.... Virgil This is no time for staring about.... Virgil Time flies never to be recalled.... Virgil To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.... Virgil To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.... Virgil Veiling truth in mystery.... Virgil Want of pluck shows want of blood.... Virgil We have to thank God for this retirement.... Virgil We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortun... Virgil What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows ar... Virgil When I saw her I as undone.... Virgil Whither art thou rushing to destruction?... Virgil Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?... Virgil Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.... Virgil None but himself can be his parallel.... Virgil Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.... Virgil Their rage supplies them with weapons.... Virgil Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a sourc... Virgil Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances... Virgil What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?... Virgil If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remembe... Virgil What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trou... Virgil The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.... Virgil Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the g... Virgil I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.... Virgil From one learn all.... Virgil Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one exa... Virgil Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger... Virgil He follows his father with unequal steps.... Virgil Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful perso... Virgil Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.... Virgil Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed... Virgil Mind moves matter.... Virgil If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.... Virgil Fate will find a way.... Virgil Fortune helps the bold.... Virgil Fortune favours the daring.... Virgil The medicine increases the disease.... Virgil Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of thi... Virgil But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.... Virgil Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or val... Virgil We can't all do everything.... Virgil The world cares very little about what a man or woman know... Virgil To have died once is enough.... Virgil A fault is fostered by concealment.... Virgil Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.... Virgil Fury itself supplies arms.... Virgil His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.... Virgil Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took... Virgil She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a... Virgil Who can blind lover's eyes?... Virgil Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch ... Virgil All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.... Virgil It is then so sad a thing to die.... Wallace Stevens A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.... Walt Whitman I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the Americ... Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the me... Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers w... Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work... Walt Whitman To have great poets, there must be great audiences.... Wendell Berry To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its ren... Wendell Berry I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my ... Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their ... W. H. Auden When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel li... W. H. Auden What the mass media offers is not popular art, but enterta... W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing... William Butler Yeats One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of ... William Butler Yeats Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting o... William Butler Yeats People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational expos... William Butler Yeats Why should we honour those that die upon the field of batt... William Butler Yeats In dreams begins responsibility.... William C. Bryant The groves were God's first temples.... William C. Bryant Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, ch... William Congreve Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a ... William Congreve Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goo... William Congreve Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to ha... William Shenstone The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native... William Wordsworth Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, mo... William Wordsworth Faith is a passionate intuition.... William Wordsworth Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.... William Wordsworth Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.... William Wordsworth Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.... William Wordsworth In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared... William Wordsworth Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your te... Yevgeny Yevtushenko A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is jus...

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