Quotes by Poets

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson
Truth Truth Is Rare Tell Delightful
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
Forgiveness Others Everyone Must Would He Over Reach Himself Pass Forgive Forgiven Heaven Cannot Which Breaks Bridge Ever Need
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. Khalil Gibran
You First Country Politician Oasis Parasite Then Asking Your Desert Zealous Second
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman
Day Me Every Miracle Perfect Day And Night Hour Night
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman
Nature Grass Believe Stars Leaf Than Less
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake
Business Will Enslaved System Must Another Create Mans Reason Compare
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Aeschylus
Hate More Spit Learned Than Disease Traitors Treachery
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Khalil Gibran
Sometimes Valley Visible Those More Through Clearly Passing Hand Friend Mountain Than Far Far Away Much Inhabit Who Away Awe-Inspiring Nearer
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. Phaedrus
First Seem First Appearance Always Deceives Many Appearance Things
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot
People World Half Important Feel Does Due Done Want Interest Mean Them Who Harm
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman
Best People Genius States Churches Colleges Inventors Most Executives Always Nor Ambassador Authors Common Common People Newspapers Even United United States
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth Truth Is Lie Half Lies Blackest Which Ever
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. Audre Lorde
Silence Respect Women Speak Fear Those Ourselves Would More Voice Write Terrified Because Were Been Than Taught Us Who Save
The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides
Life Love Pleasure Greatest Greatest Pleasure
The coward only threatens when he is safe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Coward Threatens Only He Safe
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Khalil Gibran
Life Live Back Able Look Satisfaction Twice
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sad Thought Laughter Before Pain Our Those Tell Fraught Some Songs Saddest Sincerest Look Pine After Sweetest
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore
Love Love Is Nothing Else Mystery Endless Explain
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. Robert Frost
Voting Thinking Agreeing
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
Friendship Man Bird Spider Nest Web
To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg
Good Win Good Loser Learn How Loser
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
Soul Tears Beauty Whatever Kind Invariably Excites Development Supreme Sensitive
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou
Life You Kid Taken Go Loves
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore
Life Education Harmony Our Give Highest Merely Makes Does Existence Information Which Us
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
Sense Poem Poetry Throat Wrong Begins Homesickness Lump
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? Rumi
Sad You Eyes Tears Will Cried Cry Sorrow How Blood Left Just Now Grows
Load more quotes
About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025