6028 quotes by poets for you to enjoy

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. Maya Angelou

You Grateful People Intelligence Mother Old Black Rely Had Wit Know Call Educated Womb Intellectual Intelligent Intelligent People Mean Really Old People Means Your Used Right

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranath Tagore

Art Man Objects Himself Reveals His

Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore

Music Between Souls Infinite Fills Two

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

Happiness Makes Up Lacks Length Height

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. Rumi

East No Boundaries Neither Boundaries Within Am Nor West Exist

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot

Reality Bear Very Cannot Much Humankind

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Friendship Rare Extremely Poetry Like Real Precious Pearl

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope

Fear Fools Rush Angels Where Tread

Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love Love Is Only Gold

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Alphonse de Lamartine

Great Woman Great Things Beginning Things

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. Audre Lorde

Words Speak Better Will Our Silent Welcomed Still Heard Afraid

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen

Alone Man World Strongest He Most Who Stands

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc

Life Death Sympathy Sun Possession Shadow Loss Falls Shines Where

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today Tomorrow Finished Never Started

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. Mattie Stepanek

Inspirational Hope Future Thoughts Memories Inspire Build Past Others Lifetimes Share Come Which Special Bridge Keep

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. Maya Angelou

You Hair Important Big Thong I Can Tell Some About Beads Wrinkled Feel Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Want Really Your Aging Skirt Even Thing

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was. Meghan O'Rourke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke

Life Purpose Greater Things Defeated

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Lose Else Everything Something Something Else Missed Gain Gained

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. Ryunosuke Satoro

Dreams Shoes Outgrow Expectations Your Your Dreams

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