Famous Quotes

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

~ William Ernest Henley

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes...

~ George Gordon Byron

April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.

~ T.s. Eliot

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

~ Gwendolyn Brooks

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~ W.b. Yeats

We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

~ Pablo Neruda

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

~ William Faulkner

Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

~ Alfred Tennyson

I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror –The wide brown land for me!

~ Dorothea Mackellar

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

~ Robinson Jeffers

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is just so emo. he said. Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

~ John Green

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

~ Dylan Thomas

My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

~ Robert Frost

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

~ Emily Dickinson

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

~ T.s. Eliot

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

~ John Keats

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

~ Virginia Woolf

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

~ Mary Oliver

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

~ Santosh Kalwar

grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the bella house that blows into the airat the slightest gustthat buries itself deep in the groundwhile everyone is sleepinggrief is a house where no one can protect youwhere the younger sisterwill grow older than the older onewhere the doorsno longer let you inor out

~ Jandy Nelson

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

~ Nicholas Sparks

may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

~ E.e. Cummings

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

~ Janet Fitch

It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me.

~ Pablo Neruda

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

you can take this mouththis wound you wantbut you can't kissand make itbetter.

~ Daphne Gottlieb

The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry

I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

~ Anne Brontë

There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.

~ Jim Morrison

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

~ Sylvia Plath

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one,Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.

~ W.h. Auden

Peace is always beautiful.

~ Walt Whitman

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

~ Walt Whitman

I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

~ Anne Sexton

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not youngand may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile

~ E.e. Cummings