Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.
Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward