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"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep" — Homer "Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured" — Homer "The blade itself incites to deeds of violence" — Homer "Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this" — Homer "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another" — Homer "We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." — Li Bai "A cup of wine, under the flowering trees; I drink alone, for no friend is near." — Li Bai "Life passes like a flash of lightning whose blaze barely lasts long enough to see." — Li Bai "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these" — Ovid "Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence" — Ovid "There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it" — Ovid "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind" — Ovid "In our play we reveal what kind of people we are" — Ovid "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful" — Sappho "He is more than a hero, he is a god in my eyes" — Sappho "Love shook my heart like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees" — Sappho "Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time" — Sappho "The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by, and I sleep alone" — Sappho "Fortune favors the bold" — Virgil "Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love" — Virgil "Perhaps even these things will be good to remember someday" — Virgil "They can because they think they can" — Virgil "In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood" — Dante Alighieri "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery" — Dante Alighieri "The path to paradise begins in hell" — Dante Alighieri "Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that it still does not …" — Dante Alighieri "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" — Dante Alighieri "Time and tide wait for no man" — Geoffrey Chaucer "Patience is a conquering virtue" — Geoffrey Chaucer "People can die of mere imagination" — Geoffrey Chaucer "Forbid us something, and that thing we desire" — Geoffrey Chaucer "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being." — Hafiz "Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like t…" — Hafiz "Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive." — Hafiz "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions." — Hafiz "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life" — Omar Khayyam "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness" — Omar Khayyam "The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on" — Omar Khayyam "Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you" — Omar Khayyam "Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about them if today be sweet" — Omar Khayyam "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." — Rumi "What you seek is seeking you." — Rumi "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." — Rumi "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." — Rumi "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." — Rumi "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." — Rumi "You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" — Rumi "The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are." — Rumi "It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor" — Edmund Spenser "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please" — Edmund Spenser "Sweet is the love that comes alone with willingness" — Edmund Spenser "The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known" — Edmund Spenser "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent" — John Donne "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful" — John Donne "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" — John Donne "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies" — John Donne "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven" — John Milton "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" — John Milton "Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light" — John Milton "He who destroys a good book kills reason itself" — John Milton "Solitude sometimes is best society" — John Milton "An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond — splash! Silence again." — Matsuo Basho "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." — Matsuo Basho "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." — Matsuo Basho "Learn the rules well, and then forget them." — Matsuo Basho "To be, or not to be, that is the question." — William Shakespeare "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." — William Shakespeare "The course of true love never did run smooth." — William Shakespeare "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." — William Shakespeare "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." — William Shakespeare "Though she be but little, she is fierce." — William Shakespeare "Brevity is the soul of wit." — William Shakespeare "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." — William Shakespeare "I loved you; even now I may confess, some embers of my love their fire retain" — Alexander Pushkin "Inspiration is needed in geometry just as much as in poetry" — Alexander Pushkin "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths" — Alexander Pushkin "Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness" — Alexander Pushkin "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary." — Edgar Allan Poe "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allan Poe "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." — Edgar Allan Poe "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing." — Edgar Allan Poe "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." — John Keats "Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." — John Keats "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination." — John Keats "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." — John Keats "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." — Lord Byron "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore." — Lord Byron "The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain." — Lord Byron "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." — Lord Byron "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" — Percy Bysshe Shelley "The soul's joy lies in doing" — Percy Bysshe Shelley "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" — Percy Bysshe Shelley "Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number" — Percy Bysshe Shelley "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" — Percy Bysshe Shelley "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower." — William Blake "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." — William Blake "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night." — William Blake "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." — William Blake "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." — William Blake "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" — Alfred Lord Tennyson "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" — Alfred Lord Tennyson "I am a part of all that I have met" — Alfred Lord Tennyson "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" — Alfred Lord Tennyson "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" — Alfred Lord Tennyson "One should always be drunk. That's all that matters." — Charles Baudelaire "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." — Charles Baudelaire "Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry." — Charles Baudelaire "It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they w…" — Charles Baudelaire "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad" — Christina Rossetti "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you; but when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through" — Christina Rossetti "In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan" — Christina Rossetti "My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot" — Christina Rossetti "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Light tomorrow with today" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." — Emily Dickinson "I dwell in Possibility — a fairer House than Prose." — Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me." — Emily Dickinson "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." — Emily Dickinson "Forever is composed of nows." — Emily Dickinson "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." — Emily Dickinson "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." — Emily Dickinson "I contain multitudes." — Walt Whitman "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." — Walt Whitman "Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." — Walt Whitman "I exist as I am, that is enough." — Walt Whitman "Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul." — Walt Whitman "I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks." — Anna Akhmatova "But I warn you, I am living for the last time." — Anna Akhmatova "I can't tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again." — Anna Akhmatova "At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon" — Federico Garcia Lorca "The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails" — Federico Garcia Lorca "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves" — Federico Garcia Lorca "Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches" — Federico Garcia Lorca "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" — Langston Hughes "I, too, sing America." — Langston Hughes "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." — Langston Hughes "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." — Langston Hughes "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." — Langston Hughes "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where." — Pablo Neruda "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda "In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said." — Pablo Neruda "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." — Pablo Neruda "Poetry is an act of peace." — Pablo Neruda "Laughter is the language of the soul." — Pablo Neruda "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." — Rabindranath Tagore "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." — Rabindranath Tagore "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." — Rabindranath Tagore "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." — Robert Frost "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." — Robert Frost "Nothing gold can stay." — Robert Frost "The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold." — Robert Frost "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." — Robert Frost "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper" — W.B. Yeats "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" — W.B. Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" — W.B. Yeats "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" — W.B. Yeats "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" — W.B. Yeats "The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door" — Derek Walcott "Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life" — Derek Walcott "Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry …" — Derek Walcott "Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape" — Derek Walcott "Still I rise." — Maya Angelou "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." — Maya Angelou "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that b…" — Maya Angelou "If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." — Maya Angelou "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never fo…" — Maya Angelou "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." — Maya Angelou "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition" — Octavio Paz "What we call love is a journey through water and stars, through suffocating air" — Octavio Paz "If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence" — Octavio Paz "Deserve your dream" — Octavio Paz "To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears" — Octavio Paz "If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way" — Seamus Heaney "Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun" — Seamus Heaney "History says, don't hope on this side of the grave, but then, once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of…" — Seamus Heaney "Walk on air against your better judgement" — Seamus Heaney "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am." — Sylvia Plath "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again." — Sylvia Plath "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." — Sylvia Plath "Kiss me, and you will see how important I am." — Sylvia Plath "The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." — Wole Soyinka "A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude — it pounces." — Wole Soyinka "Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth." — Wole Soyinka