Quotes by Poets

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Khalil Gibran

Life Liberty Spirit Like Without Body

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. Khalil Gibran

Grass Volcano Does Which Grow Zeal Peak

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho

Day Home Journey Every Day Every Itself

We are born of love; Love is our mother. Rumi

Love Love Is Mother Our Born

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

Love Relationship You Dance Winds Rather Between Make Another Souls Shores Heavens Spaces Moving Togetherness Your Sea Bond

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore

Smile Truth Face Mirror Beauty Own Perfect She Her

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Communicate Before Poetry Genuine Understood

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats

Friendship You Met Strangers Only Friends Here

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus

Great Grief Memory Joy Pain Present

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert Frost

Life Sometimes Will Part Development Devote His Person Body

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

Dream See Seem Within

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

Hope Soul Words Feathers Never Without Sings Stops Tunes Thing

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. Samuel Ullman

Spiritual You Dignity Maturity Speak Feelings Become Think Ability Bounds Within How Frustrations Midst Act Your Measure

Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri

Soul Beauty Act Awakens

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats

Sweet Melodies Those Heard Romantic Unheard Sweeter

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles

Wisdom Unsafe Quick Decisions

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe

Words Beauty Creation Define Would Poetry Brief

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost

Words Thought Poetry Emotion Found

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles

Win Honor Cheating Would Fail Than Prefer Even

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore

Life Service Joy Slept Saw Dreamt Behold Acted

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou

Home Safe Place Safe Go Questioned Aches Where Place Us Lives