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| Poems & Quotes |
| Please feel free to email me with any horse poems or quotes that you would like to share. |
| "If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you onto a comfortable wise old cob, with feel like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair." - Monica Dickens |
| "The glory of his snorting is terrible. He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength...He swallows the ground with storm and rage...He smells the battle afar off." - Job 39:20-21, 24-25 |
| "Four things greater than all things are: Women and Horses and Power and War." - Rudyard Kipling |
| "First , you must trust in yourself. Then you can also trust in the earth or gravity of a situation, and because of that, you can uplift yourself. At that point, you discipline becomes delightful rather than being an ordeal or a great demand. When you ride a horse, balance comes, not from freezing your legs to the saddle, but from learning to float with the movement of the horse as you ride. Each step is a dance, the rider's dance as well as the dance of the horse." - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche |
| "To err is human, to whinny equine." - Cheryl Farner |
| "Horses lend us the wings we lack." - Pam Brown 1928 |
| "Like human beings, horses are all individuals with singular personalities, their own virtues and their own faults. We become bound to them for their beauty, their eccentricities, their heart adn the love they so often return to us." - Lana Slanton |
| "The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable." - Sarah Armstrong |
| "Horses have as much individuality and character as people." - C.W. Anderson |
| "In what other sport do you put on leather boots, stretch-fabric breeches, a shirt and tie, a wool jacket, a velvet-covered cap and leather gloves, and then go out and exercise?" -A. London Wolf |
| "Think of riding as a science, but love it as an art." - George Morris |
| "The sunshine's golden gleam is thrown, on sorrel, chestnut, bay, and roan." - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| "Horse, thou art truly a creature without equal, for thou fliest without wings and conquerest without sword." - The Koran |
| "The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." - Arabian Proverb |
| "In riding a horse, we borrow freedom." - Helen Thomson |
| "A horse is such a thing of beauty... None will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor." - Xenophonn |
| "Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing: he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the groud; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds. At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, 'Aha!' He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry. - Unknown |
| "My Beautiful! My Beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly-arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye, Fret not to roam the desert now, with all thy winged speed; I may not mount on thee again--thou'rt sold, my Arab steed!" - Caroline Norton, Irish writer |
| "Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide; Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. - William Shakespeare |