Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.
Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.