Poetry Quote by Anne Bradstreet — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.”

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.”

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,”

“the saddest thing is to be”

“What though the radiance which was once so bright”

“We sit and talk,”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”

“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.”