BEST QUTOES FROM POETS
1.John Keats
(1795-1821): “ A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” “ Beauty is truth, truth
beauty.” “ The universe is indifferent to our fates.” “ Heard melodies are sweet
but those unheard are sweeter. “
2. P. B.
Shelly( 1792-1822): “Poets are the un-acknowledged legislators. “ “ We look
before and after and pine for what is not. Our sweetest laughter with some pain
is fraught. “
3. Lord Byron
(17881824: “ In solitude we are least alone. “ “ ‘Tis strange –but true, for
truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.” “ There is no instinct like
that of the heart.” “ Friendship is love without wings.” “ Adversity is the first
path to truth.” “ Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.”
4. William
Wordsworth (1770-1850): “Suffering is permanent,
obscure and dark.” “ The best portion of a good man’s life: his little,
nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” “ The world is too much with
us , late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” “ The mind
of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.” “Nature
never did betray the heart that loved her.” “ Come forth into the light of
things , let nature be your teacher. “ “The mind that is wise mourns less for
what age takes away, than what it leaves behind.” “ Our life is but a sleep and
a forgetting . Not in entire forgetfulness, but trailing clouds do we come.”
S.T.Coleridge (1772-1834): “Advice is like snow ---the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” “ He prayeth
best, who loveth best / All things both great and small,;/ For the dear God who
loveth us,/ He made and loveth all.” “I
wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and
poetry, that is, prose = words in their best order, poetry = the best words in
their best order.” “All thoughts , all
passions, all delights, /Whatever stirs this mortal frame, /All are but
ministers of L.ove ,/ And feed his sacred flame. “
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G.R.Kanwal
22 November 2025
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