Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Pauley Perrette

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Taslima Nasrin

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Vikram Seth

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick the Great

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Havelock Ellis

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

Richard Dawkins

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

Richard Dawkins