Quotes by Poets

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Khalil Gibran

Wisdom Knowledge Worth More Idle Than Infinitely Little Much Acts

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? Langston Hughes

Sun Dream Like Dry Does Up Happens Explode Raisin

Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron

Truth Adversity Path First

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

Work Love Human Being Preparation Difficult Other Our Proof Perhaps Most Another Test Ultimate Tasks Human Being Which To Love Last

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great Mother Enthusiasm Nothing Without Effort Achieved Ever

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake

You Enough Unless More Never Know Than

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats

Men Drunk Worst Worst Thing Some Some Men About Sober Thing

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats

Best Conviction Worst Passionate Intensity Lack While Full

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus

Wisdom Memory Mother

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. Alphonse de Lamartine

Politics People Admire See More Dogs Representatives

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. Carl Sandburg

Moon Lonesome Talk Friend

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg

Happiness Secret Admire Without The Secret Of Desiring

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson

Day Word Live Say Some Dead Said Begins Just

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. Henry Van Dyke

Love Best Love Is World Longest Lives Thing

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace

Adversity Circumstances Would Prosperous Talents Effect Which Dormant

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance Nothing Action See More Terrible Than

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. Lucretius

Water Fall Wears Dropping Stone Away

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. Maya Angelou

Life Food You Sit Intimate Table Eating Someone Invite Inviting Very Person Want Sensual Them Cook Your