Category: poet
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo