Quotes by Poets

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg

Nation Lost Down Society Sight Brought Had Along Always Came Condition Goes May Forgot Where Them Found

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. Robert Frost

Beautiful Me Rain Dark Walks Autumn Tree Days She Sorrow Withered Pasture Loves Bare Lane Here Thinks

You can't get too much winter in the winter. Robert Frost

You Winter Too Much Too Get Much

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. Rumi

You Soul Value Own Every Foolishness Merchandise Know Article Your

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot

Life Coffee My Life Out Measured

Nothing happens unless first we dream. Carl Sandburg

First Nothing Unless Dream Happens

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri

Knowledge You Made Live Consider Virtue Follow Were Your Origins

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe

Saying Silence Genius Everything Something True True Genius Which Should

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

Earth Poetry Never Dead

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. Maya Angelou

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent. Maya Angelou

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. Nikki Giovanni

You Change People World Matter Take Advantage Enjoy Once Embrace About Take Allow Never Advantage New Learn Lot New World Transition Themselves Who Therefore Resist

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Future Fear Past Weep

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. Rumi

Unhappy Every Parcel Bloom Being Should Full Why

God always strives together with those who strive. Aeschylus

Motivational God Together Those Strive Always Who

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love Wisdom Wise Say Most Least Who

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Day Sky Stars Invisible Filled

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Maya Angelou

Love Beautiful Music Art You Fall Franklin Van Van Gogh Find Admire John Some More Aretha Aretha Franklin Coltrane Beautiful Art Like Piece Gogh Human Just Human Beings Realize Created Less Chopin Beings Oliver

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. Maya Angelou

Cancer Bitterness Object Eats Host Anything Displeasure

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' Maya Angelou

Forgiveness You Courage Finished Enough Say Having Without Up Forgive Loving Mean Sentimentality Stand Stand Up Mush