Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

George Herbert

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

James Gates Percival

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Robert Hass

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

Renee Vivien

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Wilfred Owen

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Alfred Kazin

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Howard Nemerov

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Jessica Hagedorn

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Edwin Muir

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

Edith Sitwell

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox