Poetry Quote by George Santayana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“With you a part of me hath passed away;”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

“No one but death the redeemer will humble that head.”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

“There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;”

“E andando nel sole che abbaglia”

“I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.”