Quotes by Poets

At times I think and at times I am. Paul Valery

Think Am Times

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

Happiness Happy Wish Soon Longer Happier

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You Memories Eyes Reality Close Your

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope

Angry Anger Revenge Others Faults Ourselves

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. Emily Dickinson

Love Love Is Unable Immortality Die Loved

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. Khalil Gibran

Life Daily Religion You Enter Temple Take Your Daily Life

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

History Courage Pain Despite Faced Wrenching Cannot Again Lived Need

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore

Time Enough Months Counts Moments Butterfly

The reward of a thing well done is having done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reward Having Well Well Done Done Thing

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde

Celebrate Differences Our Those Recognize Divide Accept Inability Us

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone

Truth Liar Like Making Falsehood Itself Begins Ends Appear

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You Yourself Magic Make Happen Anything Believing

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. Rumi

Truth Heart Troubles Joyous False Tranquillity Which Brings

I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson

Inspirational Possibility Dwell

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine

You Men Long Live Outward Outward Appearance Beware Judging Appearance

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Khalil Gibran

Love You Heart Shall Volcano How Bloom Expect Your Flowers

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri

Inspirational Love Suffering Overcome Our About Most Greater Authentic Than Endure Transform To Love Capacity Us Create Thing

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work Man Yourself People Enemies Down Other Those High Merchant Knock Him Does Got His Friends Very Intelligent Sensible Worker Your Who Ever Competitors Pulling

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise Politician Cries Rule Divide Lead Unite

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plant Weed Virtues Never Been Discovered Whose

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri

Happiness Misery Sorrow Greater Times Than Recall Sad Relatable