Quotes by Poets

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. Thomas Moore

Woman Women Disguise Will Our Rules Still Tis Us Bondage

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Thomas Moore

Heart First Thorns Always Awake Flowers

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. Walt Whitman

Great Game Great Things Our I See See American Baseball Things

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats

Heart Long Sacrifice Too Make Stone May Suffice

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. E. E. Cummings

Man Politician Everyone Except Arse Which Sat

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope

Art Vast Wit Narrow Human

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. Angelus Silesius

Art Will Free Lost Thou Bound Captive Found

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde

Future Change Architecture Vision Fears Before Our Our Lives Dream Only Poetry Lays Never Been Skeleton Across Bridge Foundations Lives

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lorde

Joy Psychic Understanding Threat Physical Emotional Shared Sharing Between Intellectual Difference Whether Which Forms Them Much Bridge Basis

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Carl Sandburg

Me Hippopotamus Wallow Wants Soar Mud Eagle

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me. Dylan Thomas

Me Somebody Think Boring

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. Gabriela Mistral

Today Time Wait Tomorrow Mind Say We Cannot Developed Name Him His Child Cannot Formed Many Now Things Need Bones

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine

Will Books Also End Human Burn Human Beings In The End Wherever Beings

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome Beauty Guest Everywhere

He who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden

Must Would Dive He Who Search Pearls Below

Your friend is your needs answered. Khalil Gibran

Friendship Needs Answered Friend Your

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. Langston Hughes

Life You Ways Almost Go Discovered Getting Want Anywhere Really

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me. Mary Karr

Saying Me Thought Giving Giving Up Saying Goodbye Out Goodbye Got Opposite Up Just Sober Turned Sparkle Fun Started

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Maya Angelou