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5714 Poet Quotes

What is once well done is done forever.

Done Forever Once Well
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every Fashions Follows Generation
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Begin Beyond Capable Consists
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Become Each Him Honor
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Accomplish Ideals Incredible Men
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Enough Eternity Joke Just
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Best Dealing Insane Method
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Becomes Different Everything Little
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Always Bad Believe Transform
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Exception Questions Same Spring
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated Become Beloved Childhood
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Childhood Discoveries Eternal Glow
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Around Changes Contentment Else
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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Away Becoming Bittersweet Had
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Asked Been Delights Give
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish

Everyone Fears He Man
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Any Ideas Live Only
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Accumulation Association Consumed Distribution
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Body Everyone Never Single
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness How Object Talent
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Always Character Courage People
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Holding Letting Makes Some
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Eat Fasting Intelligent Man
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Forced Grief Multiply Strength
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Cannot Like Love Ordinary
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Body Corrupted How Moves
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Brow Death Delicate Frown
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Beauty Deepest Enhance Highest
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Become Cool Die Fire
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Cost Dear Ever His
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Bright Burns Clean Lamp
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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Law Never Possible Single
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Cause Motion Sleep Time
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Behind Hidden Meaning Reality
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Friendly Home Like Looks
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Better Does Everything Knows
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Book Concept Could History
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Creation Crucified Each Flesh
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Afraid Because Harmony Never
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Disturb Hate Person Part
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Able Away Happiness Moment
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Express Always Become Different
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Cannot Communicate Knowledge
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Accept Affirmative Answer Call
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Allow Assert Contained Except
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Beign Days Down Each
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Chaos Faith History Meaning
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Between Bliss Dividing Eternity
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Always God Good Love
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