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Quotes by Poet

"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."

"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Victory, Gain, Will

20

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

Rupert Brooke, English Poet

City, Cats, Cities, Night, Will

20

"Where there are friends there is wealth."

"Where there are friends there is wealth."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Friendship, Wealth, Friends

20

"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."

"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."

Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet

Morality, Deed, Ego, Man, May

20

"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."

"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."

Aurelius Prudentius, Roman Poet

20

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Life, Mistake, Grammar

20

"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."

"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Cause, Causes, Man

20

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

Friendship, Pity

20

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani Poet

Man, Men, Thought, People, Animals

20

"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."

"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Intellectual, Intellectuals, World, Writers

20

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

20

"Right is its own defense."

"Right is its own defense."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

Defence, Defense, Right

20

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

20

"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."

"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Acceptance, Deeds, Evil, Man, Profit

20

"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."

"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Society, Desire, Doctors

20

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish Poet

Architecture, First, Geometry

20

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

20

"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."

"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Inspirational, Life, Death, Smile, Happiness

20

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Life, Nature, Infinity, Suffering

20

"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Act, Causes, Infinite, Literature

20

"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."

"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."

William Davenant, English Poet

Knowledge, Sorrow

20

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

Family, Son, Mind, Respect, Years

20

"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Charm, Temperament

20

"The journey not the arrival matters."

"The journey not the arrival matters."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Journey, Arrival, Travel, Life

20

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Genius, Childhood, Will

20

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

Rita Dove, American Poet

Art, People, Interest, Literature

20

"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks."

"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

Beauty, Love, Smiles

20

"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

Mark Strand, American Poet

Self-Awareness, Blind, Self

20

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

Art, Men, Charm, Folly

20

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."

Rupert Brooke, English Poet

Love, Kiss, Heart, Years

20

"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."

"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

20

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

20

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American Poet

20

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."

Nikki Giovanni, American Poet

20

"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."

"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Transition, Darkness, Dawn, Hope, Time

20

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Law, Laws, Liberty, Man

20

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

John Keats, English Poet

Beauty, Love, Blame, Effect

20

"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."

"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."

Paul Valery, French Poet

20

"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."

"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Man, Men, Women

20

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Love, Nature, Man

20

"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."

"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Healing, Defeat, Heartbreak, Story, Creativity

20

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Mark Van Doren, American Poet

Art, Discovery, Teaching

20

"Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now."

"Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Life, Journey, Values, Experience

20

"No one does anything from a single motive."

"No one does anything from a single motive."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

20

"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of."

"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Sadness, Emotion, Suffering, Healing

20

"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Fight, Fighting, First, Man

20

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

John Gay, English Poet

Conflict, Dependence, Self

20

"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."

"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."

Horace, Roman Poet

20

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

Homer, Greek Poet

Family, Fathers, Sons

20

"Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch."

"Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Endurance, End, Emptiness, Stillness, Faith

20

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