Quotes by Poets

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou

Must Encounter May Many Defeated Defeats

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. Cummings

You Courage Become Takes Up Really Who Grow Grow Up

Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden

Patience Man Patient Fury Beware

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake

Morning Think Eat Noon Act Evening Night Sleep

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mind Advice Softer Longer Like Falls Snow Dwells Deeper

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful God Opportunity Beauty Lose Seeing Never Handwriting Anything

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great Men Heights Slept Great Men Attained Reached Were Upward While Toiling Flight Companions Sudden Night Kept

To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope

Divine Err Forgive Human To Err Is Human

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Way Only Friend

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine

Time Sadness Wings Flies Away

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. Aeschylus

Inspirational Seed Small Trunk May Mighty Grow

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi

Love You Beauty What You Love

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran

Today Dreams Memory Tomorrow Yesterday Dream

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek

Strength Wonderful Unity Collaboration Wonderful Things Achieved Teamwork Things

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. George Herbert

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Best Nature Rain Thing Raining

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot

Knowledge Lost Where Information

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Khalil Gibran

Family You Living Bows Arrows Children Which Sent Forth Your

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature Winter Wind Spring Behind Far

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

Education Fire Lighting Filling

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Maya Angelou

Forgiveness You Yourself Everybody Gifts Give Greatest Greatest Gifts Forgive

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran

Friendship Opportunity Responsibility Sweet Never Always

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth

Wisdom Than Oftentimes Stoop Soar Nearer