Quotes by Poets

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost

Birthday Man Woman Age Diplomat Never Remembers Always Who Her

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman

God Best Good Thank God Worst Bad Am Thank

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas

Good Age Good Night Light Rage Gentle Go Dying Against Night

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg

Dance Shadow Echo Poetry Asking

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

Stupidity Patient Those Proud Am Who

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship Depend Does Length Acquaintance Depth

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Rumi

Soul Heart Enemy Mouth Hundred Silent My Friend Like Shell Friend Up Lips Listen Your Yours Tongue Tongues

Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles

Nothing Prospers Without Labor

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan Thomas

Anger Fire Nice Makes Very Burns Bridges

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman

You Soul Insults Been Which Dismiss Your

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman

Myself I Am Contain Well Am Very Contradict Then Large Multitudes

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe

Reality Words Mind Power Impress Horror Without Exquisite

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou

You Events Control Reduced May Happen Decide Them

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis

Art Procrastination Yesterday Up Keeping

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman

Funny Enemies Doubt Believe No Doubt Friends Deserved

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

Death Light Lamp Out Only Dawn Putting Come Because

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams Live True While Last

Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron

Love Friendship Wings Without His

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. Christina Rossetti

Family Weather Calm Sister Down Way Astray Lift Like Cheer Friend Fetch Goes Stormy Whilst Stands Strengthen Tedious

Fortune befriends the bold. Emily Dickinson

Success Fortune Bold

Hope is but the dream of those who wake. Matthew Prior

Inspirational Hope Those Dream Wake Who