Quotes II

1. The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)

2. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Socrates)

3. Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle)

4. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Aristotle)

5. The soul never thinks without a picture. (Aristotle)

6. Well begun is half done. (Aristotle)

7. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. (T.S.Eliot)

8. The most important thing for poets to do is to write as less as possible. (T.S.Eliot)

9. Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. (Walt Whitman)

10. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost)

11. A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. (Robert Frost)

12. Writing a poem is discovering. (Robert Frost)

13. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)

14. The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. (Robert Frost)

15. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. (Voltaire)