Poet Quotes

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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The greed for fruit misses the flower."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The greed for fruit misses the flower."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We live in the world when we love it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We live in the world when we love it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"What gets measured gets managed."

-- Peter Drucker

"What gets measured gets managed."

-- Peter Drucker

"To do a great right, do a little wrong."

-- William Shakespeare

"To do a great right, do a little wrong."

-- William Shakespeare

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

-- William Shakespeare

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

-- William Shakespeare

"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."

-- William Shakespeare

"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."

-- William Shakespeare

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

-- William Shakespeare

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

-- William Shakespeare

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."

-- William Shakespeare

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."

-- William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale."

-- William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale."

-- William Shakespeare

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

-- William Shakespeare

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

-- William Shakespeare

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow."

-- William Shakespeare

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow."

-- William Shakespeare

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."

-- William Shakespeare

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."

-- William Shakespeare

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

-- William Shakespeare

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

-- William Shakespeare