Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
British Poet Quotes
Source
Report...
What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!…
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!
A. D. Godley
Source
Report...
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
Nahum Tate
Source
Report...
The Lord descended from above
And bow'd the heavens high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.
On cherubs and on cherubims
Full royally he rode;
And on the wings of all the winds
Came flying all abroad.
Thomas Sternhold
Source
Report...
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
Abraham Cowley
Source
Report...
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!
Marie Corelli
Source
Report...
Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.
Francis Thompson
Source
Report...
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
A. S. J. Tessimond
Source
Report...
Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
William Robert Spencer
Source
Report...
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford,
Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,
Among the bathtubs and the washbasins
A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.
Derek Mahon
Source
Report...
The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.
Osbert Sitwell
Source
Report...
I saw a man this morning
Who did not wish to die;
I ask and cannot answer
If otherwise wish I.
Patrick Shaw-Stewart
Source
Report...
Even the simplest poem
May destroy your immunity to human emotions.
All poems must carry a Government warning. Words
Can seriously affect your heart.
Elma Mitchell
Source
Report...
A female mind like a rude fallow lies;
No seed is sown, but weeds spontaneous rise.
As well might we expect, in winter, spring,
As land untilled a fruitful crop should bring.
Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine
Source
Report...
Who owns this landscape?
The millionaire who bought it or
the poacher staggering downhill in the early morning
with a deer on his back?
Norman McCaig
Source
Report...
Your worship is your furnaces, Which, like old idols, lost obscenes, Have molten bowels; your vision is Machines for making more machines.
Gordon Bottomley
Source
Report...
Forget. Memory is pain trying to resurrect itself.
Fred D'Aguiar
Source
Report...
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Source
Report...
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.
Robert Blair
Source
Report...
The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.
James Allen
Source
Report...
O yowthe allas why wilt thow nat enclyne,
And un-to reuled reform bowe thee?
Syn resoun is the verray streighte lyne
Þat ledith folk un-to felicitee.
Thomas Occleve
Source
Report...
Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!
Abel Evans
Source
Report...
Cricket is an ancient pastime; it ripened sweetly, it has endured noblt.
Thomas Moult
Source
Report...
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
Source
Report...
How sweet is harmless solitude!
What can its joys control?
Tumults and noise may not intrude,
To interrupt the soul.
Mary Mollineux
Source
Report...
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
Basil Bunting
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Quote of the day
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
Related Quotes
By profession
Poet Quotes
Women Poets
By nationality
American Poets
English Poets
Italian Poets
By century
20th-century Poets
19th-century Poets
18th-century Poets
17th-century Poets
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes