Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

5714 Poet Quotes

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Again Battered Go Had
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Manners My Sweet Times
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I know who the great poets are.

Great Know Poets Who
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't really go out at all.

Go All Out Really
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Beatnik A Catholic
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

Endless Fix Go Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Always Father Mother Republican
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Catholic Catholic Church Church Constituents
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I really hate to write.
Hate Really Write
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Believe Born Confession Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Burn Candles Everything Fabulous
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

About Alright Fiction Happened
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

About Adventures Conversation Dictate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

Get More Older You
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

To sin Silence Protest Cowards
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A weed is but an unloved flower.
A wed Unloved flower
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Laugh World Weep Borrow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Chance Destiny Circumvent Hinder
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Easy Toiler Pack Burden's weight
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

A poor Original Good imitation
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong.
Pleasant Life flows Worth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

All love Friendship Base Mansion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

Many gods Creeds Wind Kind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Always continue Climb Possible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best.

Flatter Scarcely know Fleeting guest Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die.

Feast Crowded fast Succeed Live
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Make banquets Pleasure Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

Death Stands still Hour
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoever thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.
Love Worth Returning Pathway
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Love much Earth Bitter
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

Love light More fires Hate extinguishes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Talk happiness World Path
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Love Lips Wine Wicked desire
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.
Before night Beautiful Happen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Care Cunning art Malicious Years
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Hang Hero How Knows
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Artist Belongs His Work
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Heals Inflicted Poetry Reason
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Age Children Golden GoldenAge
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Artist Interpret Life Meaning
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Character Will
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Christianity Democracy Fact Highest
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Doing Enjoyment Height Learning
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

AsFarAs Family FamilyLife Far
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Dream Dreaming Near Waking
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Faith Half Knowledge OneHalf
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character Fate Same SameThing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Gods Rule Where
  Favorite Make wallpaper