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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "Be Near Me when My Light is Low… And All the Wheels O Being Slow" |
English poet
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "I Am a Part of All That I Have Seen" |
English poet
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "Knowledge Comes, but Wisdom Stays" |
English poet
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "Let the Great World Spin for Ever Down the Ringing Grooves of Change" |
English poet
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "My Strength is As the Strength of Ten, Because My Heart is Pure" |
English poet
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | "Self-reverence, Self-knowledge, Self-control - These Three Alone Lead Life to Sovereign" |
English poet
| Allen Ginsberg | | "What if Someone Gave a War and Nobody Came?" |
American beat poet
| Carl Sandburg | | "Poetry is an Echo, Asking a Shadow to Dance" |
American poet
| Charles Pierre Baudelaire | | "A Sweetheart is a Bottle of Wine, a Wife is a Wine Bottle" |
French poet, critic and acclaimed translator
| Emily Dickinson | | "Finite to Fail, but Infinite to Venture" |
American poet
| Eustache Deschamps | | "Friends Are Relatives You Make for Yourself" |
French medieval poet
| Henry Austin Dobson | | "Time Goes, You Say? Ah No! Alas, Time Stays, We Go" |
English poet and essayist
| Henry W. Longfellow | | "It Takes Less Time to Do Things Right Than to Explain Why You Did It Wrong" |
US poet
| Henry W. Longfellow | | "Most People Would Succeed in Small Things if They Were Not Troubled With Great Ambitions" |
US poet
| Horace | | "No Verse Can Give Pleasure for Long, nor Last, That is Written by Drinkers of Water" |
Latin lyric poet
German poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher and diplomat
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | "Knowing is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Willing is Not Enough; We Must Do." |
German poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher and diplomat
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | "Nothing is More Terrible Than Ignorance in Action" |
German poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher and diplomat
| John Dryden | | "Dancing is the Poetry of the Foot" |
English poet, dramatist and critic
| John Keats | | "I Am Convinced More and More Day by Day That Fine Writing is Next to Fine Doing, the Top Thing in the World" |
Was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement
| John Kells | | "The Dust of Some is Irish Earth, Among Their Own They Rest" |
Irish poet, patriot and scholar
| John Milton | | "Better Reign Hell, Than Serve in Heaven" |
English poet
| John Milton | | "A Good Book is the Precious Lifeblood of a Master Spirit" |
English Poet
| John Milton | | "Nothing Profits More Than Self-esteem, Grounded in What is Just and Right" |
English poet
| Joseph Addison | | "Of All the Diversions of Life, There is None So Proper to Fill up Its Empty Spaces As the Reading of Useful and Entertaining Authors" |
English essayist, poet and dramatist
| Les A. Murray | | "The Trouble With Being the Best Man Is, You Don't Get a Chance to Prove It" |
Australian poet b. 1938
| Lord Byron | | "I Like the Weather, when is Not Rainy, That Is, I Like Two Months of Every Year" |
English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism
| Louis MacNeice | | "Better Authentic Mammon Than a Bogus God" |
British poet, born in Belfast
| Lucretius | | "Nothing Can Be Created out of Nothing" |
Roman poet, c.94-55 BC
| Matsuo Bashó | | "Days and Months Are Itinerants on an Eternal Journey; the Years That Pass by Are Also Travelers" |
Japanese poet of the Edo period
| Nicolas Boileau | | "A Fool Always Finds a Greater Fool to Admire Him" |
French poet and critic
| Octavio Paz | | "Deserve Your Dream" |
Mexican poet, writer and diplomat
| Octavio Paz | | "Love is an Attempt at Penetrating Another Being, but It Can Only Succeed if the Surrender is Mutual" |
Mexican poet, writer and diplomat
| Octavio Paz | | "Solitude is the Profoundest Fact of the Human Condition. Man is the Only Being Who Knows He is Alone" |
Mexican poet, writer and diplomat
| Octavio Paz | | "What Distinguishes Modern Art from the Art of Other Ages is Criticism" |
Mexican poet, writer and diplomat
| Ogden Nash | | "Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker" |
American poet
| Oscar Wilde | | "Bigamy is Having One Wife Too Many. Monogamy is the Same" |
Irish poet and dramatist
| Oscar Wilde | | "Biography Lends to Death a New Terror" |
Irish poet and dramatist
| Oscar Wilde | | "The Books That the World Calls Immoral Are the Books That Show the World Its Own Shame" |
| Oscar Wilde | | "Consistency is the Last Refuge of the Unimaginative" |
Irish poet and dramatist
| Oscar Wilde | | "I Can Believe Anything, Provided That It is Quite Incredible." |
Irish Poet and Playwright
| Oscar Wilde | | "The Old-fashioned Respect for the Young is Fast Dying Out" |
Irish poet and dramatist
| Oscar Wilde | | "Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes" |
Irish poet and dramatist
| Ovid | | "Everything Comes Gradually and at Its Appointed Hour" |
Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet
| Ovid | | "Fortune and Love Befriend the Bold" |
Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet
| Ovid | | "Let Your Hook Be Always Cast; in the Pool Where You Least Expect It, There Will Be a Fish" |
Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet
| Ovid | | "Nothing is Stronger Than Habit" |
Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet
| Ovid | | "Take Rest. A Field That Has Rested Gives a Beautiful Crop" |
Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet
| Pablo Neruda | | "I Love You Without Knowing How, or When, or from Where. I Love You Straightforwardly, Without Complexities or Pride; So I Love You Because I Know No Other Way" |
Chilean poet, diplomat and politician. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971
| Pablo Neruda | | "Peace Goes Into the Making of a Poem As Flour Goes Into the Making of Bread" |
Chilean poet, diplomat and politician. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "Age Considers; Youth Ventures" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "Every Difficulty Slurred over Will Be a Ghost to Disturb Your Repose Latter On" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "Faith is the Bird That Sings when the Dawn is Still Dark" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "If You Shut the Door to All Errors, Truth Will Be Shut Out" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "Trees Are the Earth’s Endless Effort to Speak to the Listening Heaven" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Rabindranath Tagore | | "You Can’t Cross the Sea Merely by Standing an Staring at the Water" |
Indian educator & Bengali poet
| Robert Browning | | "Ignorance is Not Innocence, but Sin" |
English poet
| Robert Frost | | "By Working Faithfully Eight Hours a Day You May Eventually Get to Be a Boss and Work Twelve Hours a Day" |
American poet
| Robert Frost | | "A Jury Consists of Twelve Persons Chosen to Decide Who Has the Better Lawyer" |
American Poet
| Samuel Butler | | "Friendship is Like Money, Easier Made Than Kept" |
English poet
| Stanislaw J. Lec | | "You Must First Have a Lot of Patience to Learn to Have Patience" |
Polish Poet and aphorist
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | | "To Keep the Heart Unwrinkled, to Be Hopeful, Kindly, Cheerful, Reverent - That is to Triumph over Old Age" |
American poet, novelist, traveler and editor
| T. S. Eliot | | "Success is Relative. It is What We Can Make of the Mess We Have Made of Things" |
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
| T. S. Eliot | | "What We Call the Beginning if Often the End. And to Make an End is to Make a Beginning. The End is Where We Start From" |
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
| Vita Sackville-West | | "Travel is the Most Private of Pleasures. There is No Greater Bore Than the Travel Bore" |
English poet, novelist and gardener
| Walt Whitman | | "I Believe a Leaf of Grass is No Less Than the Journey Work of the Stars" |
From Song of Myself
| Walt Whitman | | "I Celebrate Myself, and Sing Myself" |
American poet from Song of Myself
| W. H. Auden | | "One Cannot Review a Bad Book Without Showing Off" |
Anglo-American poet
| Wilfred Owen | | "All a Poet Can Do Today is Warn" |
English poet killed in WWI
| William Cowper | | "Knowledge is Proud That He Has Learned So Much, Wisdom is Humble That He Knows No More." |
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