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5714 Poet Quotes

When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Rise up Joyful Fall Regret
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

We Truth God Task
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The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

Crisis Community Corruption Character
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This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Religion Beauty Goodness World
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Care Earth Responsibility Hope
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

People Food Health Attention
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

We Succeed Earth Live
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Do unto Downstream Upstream You
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
You Life Commit Direction
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Save Land People Apart
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Live Laws Human being Justice
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We need Better Government Minds
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Good work Every one Begin Do it
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Love Dark Shining Gold
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Interested Food Production Absurd
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Agriculture Income Productivity Health
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Mind Baffled Unemployed
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What I stand for is what I stand on

What Stand for On
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Past Defination Strive Escape
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Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living Expections Hope Love
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Serious Peace Work Bravely
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

Sustainable Agriculture People Land
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Possible Live Future Past
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
Future Responsible Behaviour Present
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Best day Life Worry Possibility
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

Obsession Security Power Future
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Rely Nature's Wisdom Man's cleverness
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Treat Life Miracle Give up
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous

Action Love Hope Responsible
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Ability Speak Exactly Know
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All a poet can do today is warn.

All.Poet Today Warn
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Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.

Sleep Mothered Twilight Sad
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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them

Children Studied Enjoyed Understand them
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Ask Held above Wastes Want
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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Who.Hope Old age Inward gloom
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But they who love the greater love Lay down their life; they do not hate.

Love Lay down Life Hate
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

Boy Realized Life Poet's
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Music Charms Soothe Bend
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Women Tricks Admire Understand
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship Marriage Prologue Play
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Beauty Courage Souls Admire
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned

Heaven Rage Love Hatred
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward
Blessings Virtuous Deeds Reward
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views

He Confidence Integrity Views
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing

Uncertainty Joys Life Security
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Never Angry Stay up Fight
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Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees

Satan Trembles Weakest Saint
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Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own

Knowledge Men Wisdom Minds
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

God Moves Ways Wonders
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature Name Effect God
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