Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Samuel Johnson

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Thomas Hood

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Toni Morrison

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

George MacDonald

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Lionel Trilling

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Mary Douglas

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

William Wordsworth

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Bob Dylan

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg