Category: poet
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander Pope
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Their rage supplies them with weapons.
Virgil
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Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Lord Byron
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D. H. Lawrence
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Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence