Quotes by Poets

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. Rabindranath Tagore
Gardening Envy Single Flower Numerous Thorns Which Need
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude People Other Highest Between Protects Task Hold Each Bond Two Two People
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. Rainer Maria Rilke
Art Great Made Great Art Danger Having Known Without Been Artist Ever
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death Great Build Cold Monument Sun Shall Until Achievements Endure Which Grows Great Achievements
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Capitalism Result About Well Doing Doing Good
Who seeks shall find. Sophocles
Find Seeks Shall Who
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray
Wise Ignorance Folly Bliss Where Tis Ignorance Is Bliss
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. Walt Whitman
Life Me Will Nothing Live Meet Ruler Take Powerful Command Oh While Conqueror Ever Exterior Slave
Whether we or 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
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake
You World Will Made Up Contradiction Fiction
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats
Heart Old Kiss First Stars Our Seem First Kiss How How Far Ah Far Far Away Away
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth
Life Love Kindness Best Man His Little Acts Portion
Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth
Faith Intuition Passionate
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. E. E. Cummings
Wisdom Fate Better Kisses Than
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. Aeschylus
Success Obedience Mother Safety
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. Aeschylus
Blame Alien Everyone Quick
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri
Life Myself Journey Dark Lost Our Way Within Came Wood Middle Where Straight
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edgar Allan Poe
Man Suits Coward Seem Him Truly Brave Afraid Either Who
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson
Nature Strange Intrude Knock Does How
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. Euripides
Love Good Man Down Knees Thank Heaven Your Fasting
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. Francis Quarles
Patience Anger Slow Stronger Long Fury Longer Abuse Beware Him Coming Turns Kept
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. Hafez
Love Time Me You Sky Earth Sun Says Never Lights Like Look Owe After Happens Whole Even
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time You Takes Wrong Does Than Did Explain Less Less Time Why Right Thing
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne
Great Nature Harmless Only Great Thing Masterpiece Elephant Thing
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
Library Will Paradise Imagination Kind Always Imagined
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Khalil Gibran
Wisdom Selfish Too Other Laugh Seek Weep Becomes Proud Ceases Itself Than Grave
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