Escritas — Poems List

John Gay

Cowards are cruel, but the

Cowards are cruel, but the brave

117

Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

102

J. R. R. Tolkien

He that breaks a thing

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

104

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

405

Norbert Wiener

What most experimenters take for

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

31

William Shakespeare

When we are born, we

When we are born, we cry, that we are come

125

John Dewey

Social engaged intellectuals must accept

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

97

Karl Marx

One of the most difficult

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.

113

Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

51

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and

His life was gentle; and the elements

246

Frida Kahlo

I paint self-portraits because I

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best

522

Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

85

John Keats

Tis the witching hour of

Tis the witching hour of night,

202

William Allen White

Any appeasement of tyranny is

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

67

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a

Any fool can make a rule,

129

Giovanni Boccaccio

You must read, you must

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

25

Hartley Coleridge

She is not fair to

She is not fair to outward view

110

James McNeill Whistler

Two and two continue to

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

17

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You are beautiful, but you

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

199

Philip R. Zimmermann

If privacy is outlawed, only

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

39

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us, then be up

Let us, then be up and doing,

208

Walt West

The trouble with doing something

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

38

Kurt Vonnegut

Well, the telling of jokes

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

44

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One runs the risk of

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

148