top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Poet
"Only this actual moment is life."
7
"Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın, akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' Öncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk’ın ayağıdır; sevgili değildir. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir."
7
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
7
"The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it."
7
"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."
7
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
7
"A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way."
7
"All men are poets at heart."
7
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
7
"Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment ."
7
"You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people."
7
"If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful."
7
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
7
"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."
6
"If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer."
6
"Science is theology for an atheist."
6
"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."
6
"Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess."
6
"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
6
"The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies."
6
"He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke."
6
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
6
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
6
"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."
6
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
6
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Act,
6
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
6
"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
6
bottom of page