Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Robert Morgan

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Shane Koyczan

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Immanuel Kant

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

James Redfield

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

Moses Mendelssohn

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Michel Onfray

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Richard Dawkins