Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.
I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.
People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied.
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.