Poetry Quote by Andrew Marvell — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Had we but World enough, and Time,”

“Now therefore, while the youthful hue”

“But at my back I always hear”

“Thus, though we cannot make our sun”

“The grave's a fine and private place,”

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”

“Let them shoot us in the head,”

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

“For books are more than books, they are the life”

“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.”

“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or swum... I am not a tourist nor a spectator... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck”