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5714 Poet Quotes

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Captain Evening He His
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Atmosphere City Life Marvelous
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Resentment Precious Flower Poverty
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

Do Have Home Homesick
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Face Brooding Peace Faces
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Those Who Thousand Miracle
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

Meditated Love Reasoned Realized
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Lover Beloved Two Come
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Most Fatal Man Do
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Imagination Takes Love Humility
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Fought People Slept Habit
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Way Need Loneliness Bear
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them

People Longed Bad Made
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Made Suddenly Wonder World
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
Failing Love Easiest Thing
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art Else Everything Passion
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Beauty Habitual Happiness Kinds
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Amusing Boring Considered Everything
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Even Financial Honesty Merchant
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Inner Nature Nothing Voice
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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done Except Little Nothing
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Goes Misunderstanding Only Round
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Dare Except Long Piece
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Among Artist Express First
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Always Art Done Effort
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Art Being Contingent Eternal
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Beating Cemetery Drum Funeral
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Childhood Genius Recalled Will
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Beings Create Exist Know
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Ever Good Lacks Reason
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Find Look Many Must
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Begin Joy Only World
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Being Paid Luxury Starting
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Being Better Child Stops
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Absolutely Every Feeling Free
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Before Clever Enough Fall
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Forgotten Lies Life Memories
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists Bourgeois Monks State
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Mermaid Tears Suffer More
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When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Bird Heart Begins Sing
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Just living is not enough,

Living Enough Butterfly Sunshine
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To travel is to live.
Travel Live
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Enjoy Life Plenty Time
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Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Life Every man fairy God Fingers
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Beautiful Melody Lyrics Messed
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Life Itself Wonderful Fairy
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Laughed Danced Thought Death
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