Poetry Quote by G.K. Chesterton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.”

“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.”

“Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.”

“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet.”

“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,”

“Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“You will recognize your own path”

“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;”

“La heradera del dia destruida.”