Sunday's Poetry Quotes

Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots. ~Carl Sandburg

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
~Amelia Earhart


By the excellence of his work the workman is a neighbor.
By selling only what he would not despise to own the salesman is a neighbor.
By selling what is good his character survives his market. ~Wendell Berry

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
~Edward Fitzgerald "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~William Butler Yeats

I was born to catch dragons in their dens
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
~James Kavanaugh "Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
~Robert Browning "'Rabbi Ben Ezra"