19th-century Poet Quotes

Alexander Pushkin
Emily Dickinson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kahlil Gibran
Robert Frost
Ivan Turgenev
Charles Baudelaire

Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg
She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

Robert Frost
Robert Frost
I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
The light died out and left the sky,
We sighed and rose and said good-bye,
We had forgotten — He and I,
That he was dead, that I must die.

Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world.

LUCIFER: Only the chemistry of love can make Two atoms one.

Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin
I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!

The white man had come with the Bible in one hand, the bottle in the other.

E. Pauline Johnson
E. Pauline Johnson
Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.

Takuboku Ishikawa
Takuboku Ishikawa
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Henry Timrod
Henry Timrod
We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.

Poetry is the vision in a man's soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.

Paul Fort
Paul Fort
Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov
Velimir Khlebnikov
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

A moment is a mighty thing
Beyond the soul's imagination;
For in it, though we trace it not,
How much there crowds of varied lot
How much of life, life cannot see,
Darts onward to eternity!

I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain thou'lt hear Tales of ships.

Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell;
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years—
The horrible Light-house of Hell!

McDonald Clarke
McDonald Clarke