Quotes by Poets

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

Happiness Happy Virtue Pleasure Neither Simply Nor Growing Growth Thing

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper

Wisdom Knowledge Humble More Knows Proud Much

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope

Soul Strike Sight Charms Wins Merit

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life Alone Three Power Lead Self-Control Self-Knowledge Sovereign

He makes no friends who never made a foe. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Made No Friends Foe Never He Makes Friends Who

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde

Love Women Black Other Has-Been Habit Tender Study Until Because Becomes How Been Stolen Native Us Each

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg

Life Best Me Came Been Unexpected Nearly Things

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg

I Am Way Idealist Know Am Going Where

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Work Hope You Yourself Water Tears Will Laughter Out Till Go Blood Bloom Happen Stories Burst Them Your

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Diane Ackerman

Nature Scent Smell Mountains Nothing Summer Beside Memorable More Up Than Unexpected Childhood Lake Fleeting Conjure Momentary

Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young

Time Procrastination Thief

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Euripides

God First Those Destroy Mad He Wishes Makes Whom

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read

Character Man Personality Achieve Only Ideals Formulate Them

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God Great Thoughts Heart Pure Pure Heart Ask Should

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Enough Insight Admit Perfection Limitations His Nearest

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne

Love God Me Sake Hold Your Tongue

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. John Keats

Music World Nothing Only Stable Uproar Your

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Khalil Gibran