Happiness Quote by John Green

“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents…

— John Green

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies…

— William Shakespeare

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid…

— John Milton

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty…

— Andrew Marvell

“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You English words? I know you: You are light as dreams, Tough as oak, Precious as gold, As poppies and corn, Or an old…

— Edward Thomas

“With my polished Verses as a trellis of pure metal Studded cunningly with rhymes of crystal, I shall make for your head an immense…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in your eyes…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong

“Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.”

— Allen Ginsberg