GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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GREAT QUOTES OF W B YEATS

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” - W.B. Yeats

“For he would be thinking of love

Till the stars had run away

And the shadows eaten the moon.” - W.B. Yeats

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler Yeats

“Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” - William Butler Yeats

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,

For I would ride with you upon the wind,

Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,

And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” - William Butler Yeats

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,

Picked him up for her own,

Pressed her body to his body,

Laughed; and plunging down

Forgot in cruel happiness

That even lovers drown.” - W.B. Yeats

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” - W.B. Yeats 

 “But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)” - W.B. Yeats

GREAT QUOTES OF MAYA ANGELOU

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MAYA ANGELOU

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -  Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” - Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.)” - Maya Angelou

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” - Maya Angelou

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” - Maya Angelou 

 “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” - Maya Angelou

GREAT QUOTES OF ALFRED TENNYSON

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GREAT QUOTES OF TENNYSON

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'it will be happier'...” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I am a part of all that I have met.” -  Alfred Tennyson

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” -  Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

Tears from the depths of some divine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

In looking on the happy autumn fields,

And thinking of the days that are no more.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I will drink life to the lees.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Once in a golden hour

I cast to earth a seed.

Up there came a flower,

The people said, a weed.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

GREAT QUOTES OF RUDYARD KIPLING

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF RUDYARD KIPLING

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” - Rudyard Kipling

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” - Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble” - Rudyard Kipling

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.” - Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” - Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” - Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.” - Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” - Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

GREAT QUOTES OF ROBERT FROST

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ROBERT FROST

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost

“We love the things we love for what they are.” - Robert Frost

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” - Robert Frost

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” - Robert Frost

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness.” - Robert Frost

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Robert Frost

“Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire,

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.” - Robert Frost

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” - Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” - Robert Frost

GREAT QUOTES OF WALT WHITMAN

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF WALT WHITMAN

“Resist much, obey little.” - Walt Whitman

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” -  Walt Whitman

“Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” - Walt Whitman

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” - Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman

“We were together. I forget the rest.” - Walt Whitman

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.

You must travel it by yourself.

It is not far. It is within reach.

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.

Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” - Walt Whitman

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough” - Walt Whitman

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” - Walt Whitman

“Be curious, not judgmental.” - Walt Whitman

GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO NERUDA

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO NERUDA

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” - Pablo Neruda

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” - Pablo Neruda

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” - Pablo Neruda, Love

“Well, now

If little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you

Little by little

If suddenly you forget me

Do not look for me

For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life

And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots

Remember

That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms

And my roots will set off to seek another land” - Pablo Neruda

“I want

To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” - Pablo Neruda

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” - Pablo Neruda

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” - Pablo Neruda

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines

I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” - Pablo Neruda

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,

your hands the color of a savage harvest,

hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,

the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,

I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,

Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.” - Pablo Neruda

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda