Poems List

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

In order for one to come off as a professional at something is to vehemently disagree with other professionals. People have blind faith in confident fools

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!

People have blind faith in confident fools

...the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The germ of genius with a definite purpose is contagious. Otherwise, it's pathogenic.

Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

Nature's perfectly cruel in the most just ways

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

At the end of the day everybody is doing what they can to get by