Poems List

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Luck's always to blame.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Still people are dangerous.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Refuse to be intimidated by your misfortunes/unfavourable circumstances. Rather, intimidate them at all cost by imbibing/portraying positive mindset, thinking and attitude against them (your misfortunes/unfavourable circumstances). For doing just that, is most likely to mark a turning point for you.

Destiny is meant by God to be the making of all and sundry i.e. destiny is predetermined by God to bring about everyone's success or favourable development. Therefore, endeavour to discover/fulfill your God-given destiny. For you will surely be glad that you did.

Basically, it takes an unyielding spirit to emerge a success/winner in anything in life.