Quotes, Sayings, Phrases: Poet

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Thursday, May 31

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was working ion the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In Afternoon i put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Eternity is in love with the productions of time

William Blake

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

John Updike