Quotes by Poets

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. Thomas Campbell

Freedom Patriotism Tree Seed Blood Patriot

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W. H. Auden

Else Someone Talks Who Professor Sleep

When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman

Myself Give

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman

Dark Light Every Miracle Moment

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. Wendell Berry

Nature Justice Memory Party Politicians Sense Our More Longer Votes Know She Deals Than Whether Decisions

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. William Cowper

Satan Trembles Weakest Sees He Knees Saint

From a little spark may burst a flame. Dante Alighieri

Flame May Burst Little Spark

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Future Heart Fear Past Manly Meet Back Shadowy Wisely Look Without Go Improve Again Forth Thine Present

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World Nothing Insignificant Point Point Of View Depends View

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran

Friendship Spirit Purpose Deepening Save

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Khalil Gibran

You Yourself Possessions Give Truly Little Your

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho

Wise Brainy Follow Seek Footsteps Sought

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Maya Angelou

Love Walk Mountains Other Dare Ourselves Some Someone Write Talk Because Within Makes Climb Oceans Same Human Impulse Want Human Beings Explain To Love Us Reason Paint Who Swim Beings Why

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal

Politicians Born Poets Prosper Hearts Hands Die Nations

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni

Life Mistakes Response Fact Counts Error

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. Omar Khayyam

Wine Thou Jug Bread Loaf

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery

Great Man Gone Others Great Man He Leaves Loss After Who

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Rabindranath Tagore

Dark Matter Will Become Own Something My Own Through Come Make Terrific Another How Go Version Optimist Door Present

We must be our own before we can be another's. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brainy Before Own Our Must Another

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. Virgil

Sheep Wolf Troubles Never How May Many