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Memorable quotations from famous poets. 14 people, 978 quotes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900173 quotes
Robert Frost1874–196359 quotes
William Shakespeare1564–1616335 quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882102 quotes
John Donne1572–163125 quotes
Dorothy Parker1893–196722 quotes
T. S. Eliot1888–196549 quotes
Emily Dickinson1830–188637 quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–183260 quotes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–188247 quotes
Alexander Pope1688–174427 quotes
Ogden Nash1902–19716 quotes
Euripides481–407 BC26 quotes
Carl Sandburg1878–196710 quotesPopular quotes
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context
Alexander Pope1688–1744Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost1874–1963Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73- John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act IIIA man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
