Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.

Marcel Proust

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Marjane Satrapi

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

Mattie Stepanek

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Matt Simpson

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Nikki Giovanni

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Nikki Giovanni

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Nikki Giovanni

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Nikki Giovanni

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Nikki Giovanni

I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.

Kafka on the Shore

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Annie Dillard

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against The want of you; Of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Amy Lowell

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Dario Fo

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Dean Koontz

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Eric Hoffer

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer