Poet Quotes

Dante Alighieri

Alexander Pushkin

Lord Byron

Pablo Neruda

Virgil

Emily Dickinson

Rainer Maria Rilke

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

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

Comte de Lautréamont

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

José Bergamín

My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

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

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

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

Lady Margaret Sackville

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

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

Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Alexander Pushkin

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Now as all the sciences are connected with each other, Philosophy is never completed. In a complete system of all the sciences will philosophy for the first time be made manifest.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

Dante Alighieri

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores
Across the lands and waters he was battered
beneath the violence of the high ones for
the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

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

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

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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

Antonio Porchia

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.

The leafless orchard
Is alone day and night
With his pure and sad silence.

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.