Memorable Quotations: Poets of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous poets of the past: Franklin Pierce Adams, Joseph Addison, Zoe Akins, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Allingham, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Matthew Arnold, Jean Arp, W. H. Auden, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, Djuna Barnes, Aphra Behn, Hilaire Belloc, Sarah Bernhardt, William Blake, Louise Bogan, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Mary Gardiner Brainard, Andre Breton, Joseph Brodsky, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Byron, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E. E. Cummings, Rene Daumal, Babette Deutsch, Emily Dickinson, John Dryden, Lawrence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Fitzgerald, Anatole France, Robert Frost, John Gay, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver St. John Gogarty, William Golding, Oliver Goldsmith, Paul Goodman, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Aldous Huxley, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, June Jordan, John Keats, Jean de La Fontaine, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Audre Lorde, Amy Lawrence Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Phyllis McGinley, Herman Melville, George Meredith, Thomas Merton, Alice Meynell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alice Duer Miller, John Milton, Eugenio Montale, Marianne Moore, Thomas Moore, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Ogden Nash, Howard Nemerov, Pablo Neruda, Gerard de Nerval, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, Cesare Pavese, Thomas Love Peacock, Patrick Henry Pearse, Francis Picabia, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound, Jacques Prevert, Edgar Quinet, Jean Racine, Laura Riding, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Sackville, Vita Sackville-West, George Santayana, May Sarton, Friedrich Von Schiller, Delmore Schwartz, Sir Walter Scott, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dame Edith Sitwell, Muriel Spark, Leonora Speyer, Wallace Stevens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Traherne, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tristan Tzara, Paul Valery, Voltaire, Edith Wharton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, Edward Young, Marguerite Yourcenar.