Quotes by Poets

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Walt Whitman

Soul Before Composed Stand Your Cool Million Universes

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Mirror Manners He His Which Shows Portrait

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. Khalil Gibran

You Blame Wind Trees Secrets Reveal Revealing Them Should Your

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Brainy Responsible Feels Snowflake Avalanche Ever

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Thomas Moore

Love Friendship Love Is Steady Like Warm

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou

Future Burden Past Threatens Inaccessible Confuses Prejudice Present

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art Heart Higher Never Execute Hand Than Anything Imagine

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson

Morning You Dawn Without Romantic

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell

Beautiful World Single Action Weigh Than Lovely Sentiments Less

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. Maya Angelou

Best Great You Respect Past Great Respect Come Know Go Person Going Where Centered Place Then Next Moment Forward Here

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou

You Courage Important Practice Nothing Other Virtue Virtues Consistently Most Because Without Any The Most Important

Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri

Art God Nature

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad Life History Man Suffering Enemies Enough Secret Our Find Could Hostility Disarm Sorrow Read Should Each

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

Life Thankful Gratitude Change Experience World Everyday Those Allowing How Reverence Encounter Forever Transcendent Us Moments Awe

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Khalil Gibran

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore

Mind Logic Blade Knife Bleed Like Makes Hand Uses

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Peace Yourself Nobody Bring

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost

Man Own Too Liberal Side Take Quarrel His