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5714 Poet Quotes

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Wonderful Strongest World Know
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Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Cheerfulness Significance Good health Clear conscience
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty Wait Returns Fresh
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Privilege Friendship Talk Nonsense
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Motto Contented Little Wishing
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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Reading Silent Conversation
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain Life Sharper Evidence
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Love Lose Myself Men's
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

One success To spend Your life Own way
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Three ingredient Good life Learning Earning
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

High heels Invented A woman Been kissed
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Heavy hearts Clouds Best relieved Letting of
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Real purpose Books The mind Own thinking
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Beauty Lonely mind Shadow fleeting Never plan
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No mistaking Real book Like falling In love
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

A heaven This earth We inhabit We read
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man Never made Woman angry A failure
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The trouble With wedlock Enough wed Much lock
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man Is lonely Eating spaghetti It requires
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

One rule Good talker Learn To listen
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Man's heart Secret nerve Answers The vibrations
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

You have To pretend A parade Really interested
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life Foreign language All men Mispronounce it
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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Good thing Your mind Upside down Hour glass
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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades.

A doctor Advertised My business The mind
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The sinner The right To preach
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes Hardest To bear Never came
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words A commodity Never Any slump
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies The future Nicest people
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That's what this country needs,more books.

Country needs More books
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Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.

Banish Fear Flame Love
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Torments Lie Circle Wedding-ring
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Who fears to offend takes the first step to please.

Who Fears Offend First step
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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Know One Good Out
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

The end My life Just lived The length
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Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

Small shapes Gorgeous chaos The world
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I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.

Don't want A passenger Own life
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite.

Errands life Be running Mysteries Enchants us
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Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight.
Love seems As essential Sunlight
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And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Words The pass keys Our souls Really share
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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Love Created from Emotional colors Fabric
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Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Fear Is danger Your body Disgust
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Can't enchant The world Own magic By paying
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Everyone admits Love Is wonderful Necessary
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Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.

Every day Life Thought Horrible present
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What sort of stewards of the future planet will today’s digital children be?

What sort Stewards Future planet Today's digital
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Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We are the sum of our memories.

Without memories Wouldn't know Memorable future
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The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Future Happens How much Scream
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