Quotes by Poet

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Alone, People

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"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."

Kenko Yoshida, Japanese Poet

Men, Generations, Pleasure

"The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching."

Kenko Yoshida, Japanese Poet

Truth, Beginning, End

4

"A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."

Kenko Yoshida, Japanese Poet

Life, Regret, Sky

5

"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."

William Watson, American Poet

Music, Song

"Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men."

William Watson, American Poet

Men, Songs

"Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect."

William Watson, American Poet

Future, Past, Respect, Will

"I'd rather be homesick than home."

Leo Vroman, Dutch Poet

Home,

"I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun!"

Charles Hanson Towne, American Poet

Day, Eyes

"Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial."

Nahum Tate, Irish Poet

Friendship, Men, Greatness, Privilege

"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

Art, Fashion

"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

Poetry, Art, Excellence

"Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

Time, Being, Luck, Right

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

Anne Spencer, American Poet

Beach,

"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."

Anne Spencer, American Poet

Life, HusbPeople, Pleasure

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard."

Anne Spencer, American Poet

Coffee, Communication

"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."

Lydia Sigourney, American Poet

People, Strength, Nation, Republican

"Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Success, Possibility

"A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Education, Time, Attention, Study

"If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Music, Girls

"Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Being, Content

"Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Tenderness, Will

"To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!"

Anne Seward, British Poet

Criticism,

"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

Margaret E. Sangster, American Poet

Genius,

"No one should teach who is not in love with teaching."

Margaret E. Sangster, American Poet

Love, Teaching

"In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding."

Margaret E. Sangster, American Poet

Peace,

"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."

Dante G. Rossetti, British Poet

Love, Eternity

"Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art."

Dante G. Rossetti, British Poet

Art, Work, Difference

"Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had."

Frances Rodman, American Poet

Matrimony,

"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows."

Frances Rodman, American Poet

Faith, Courage, Hope, Strength

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."

Frances Rodman, American Poet

Now, Right

"Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else."

Frances Rodman, American Poet

Talking,

"I write poetry in order to live more fully."

Judith Rodriguez, American Poet

Poetry, Order

"Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

Youth,

"For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

Man, May, Woman

"He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

Men, Light

"I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

God, Answers, Name

"Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

Love,

"She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires."

Edwin A. Robinson, American Poet

Pity,

"I wonder at the idleness of tears."

Lizette Woodworth Reese, American Poet

Idleness, Tears, Wonder

"Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Excess, Nonsense, Now, Poets

"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Poet, Poets, Prose, Style, Waiting

"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Art, Religion, Logic, Quiet

"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Poetry,

"He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

May, Prose, Result, Sense

"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Life, Harmony, Necessity

"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Accident, Now, Sense, Words

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

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"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."

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"The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching."

4

"A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."

5

"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."

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"Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men."

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"We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing."

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"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent."

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"Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness."

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"Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect."

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"I'd rather be homesick than home."

​

"I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun!"

​

"Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial."

​

"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting."

​

"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

​

"Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time."

​

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

​

"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."

​

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard."

​

"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."

​

"Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption."

​

"A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen."

​

"If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing."

​

"Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished."

​

"Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness."

​

"To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!"

​

"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

​

"No one should teach who is not in love with teaching."

​

"In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding."

​

"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."

​

"Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art."

​

"Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had."

​

"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows."

​

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."

​

"Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else."

​

"I write poetry in order to live more fully."

​

"Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther."

​

"For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover."

​

"He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are."

​

"I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are."