Poems List

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you're not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.