Quote Quote from “Caged Bird” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/41917 The caged bird sings with a fearful trill Of things unknown but longed for still And his tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom Maya Angelou
Quote Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. Frederick William Faber
Quote Quote from “Advice To A Girl” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/125047 No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale
Quote If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quote Quote from “Mother To Son” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/41919 Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters Langston Hughes
Quote Quote from “Do What You Will (1929)” Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley
Quote Quote from “Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Line” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/115466 Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Pablo Neruda
Quote Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer” A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost