Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.
My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"
It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.
I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.