Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.
The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.
When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR-- breathing the life back into me.
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich
i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?
The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune; His jewels are his good children.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.
Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.
I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.
If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.