Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Giada De Laurentiis

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Guru Nanak

Knowledge owns the past and future, as long as we've the information we've power over the future.

George Orwell

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honore de Balzac

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

John O'Donohue

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

John Pomfret

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Joan D. Vinge

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

C. K. Williams

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

David Antin

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

David Antin

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Diane Ackerman

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Daphne Fielding

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Daisaku Ikeda

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Denise Levertov

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Don Marquis