Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Ishmael Reed

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

John Betjeman

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

John Churton Collins

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

John Dyer

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Joan D. Vinge

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Marcel Proust

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

Richard Le Gallienne

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Honore de Balzac

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Kay Redfield Jamison

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Karl Shapiro

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Karl Shapiro

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Frank Chodorov

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Frank O'Hara

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Frank O'Hara

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Freya Stark

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman