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

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

Lady Margaret Sackville

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

Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Alexander Pushkin

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

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.

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

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

Nikolai Gumilev

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

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!

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

E. Pauline Johnson

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

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.

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

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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

Giuseppe Giacosa

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

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!

Robert Montgomery

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.

Charles Henry Webb

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