Quotes by Poets

Deserve your dream. Octavio Paz

Dream Your Your Dream Deserve

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery

War People Profit Other Massacre Know Who Each

We live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore

Love World Live

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake

Life Death Art Science Tree Tree Of Life Life Science

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. Audre Lorde

Me Made Important Believe Must Risk Having Bruised Shared Spoken Over Come Most Verbal Misunderstood Again Even

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson

Man Behavior He Feels Does Believes Thinks

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Khalil Gibran

Mirror Beauty Gazing Itself Eternity

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. Maya Angelou

Time Myself Me Experience Long Long Time Own Others Side I Can My Own Long Time Ago Wisest Like Learned Advocate Thing

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Rainer Maria Rilke

Life Daily You Blame Yourself Poet Poverty Enough Seems Poetry Call Poor Forth Riches Your Creator Daily Life

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Broken Man World Unity Lies Himself Because Lacks Reason Why

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot

World Way Bang Ends

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake

Time Winter Enjoy Harvest Seed Learn Teach

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats

Beautiful Time Enemy Innocent

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strive Find Seek Yield

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational Love Great Spirit Wings Deeds Desire

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats

Truth Heart Nothing Imagination Am Affections Romantic Holiness Certain

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Khalil Gibran

Inspirational Love Today Truth Obey Beauty Before Yesterday Our Bent Follow Obeyed Kings Only Only Love Kneel Necks

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran

Truth Truth Is Rebellion Spring Bleak Like Without Desert

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. Matsuo Basho

Out Temple Sound Still Coming Hear Stops Bell Flowers

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. Susan Polis Schutz

Life Depression Fear Difficult Enough Complete Those Hopelessness Never True Emptiness Often Experienced Who Lucky Imagine