Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Shelley

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Ovid

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Hardy

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Talib Kweli

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

George Orwell

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Roland Barthes

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Rene Descartes

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Robert Ludlum

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Teju Cole

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Allen Ginsberg

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Andrew Motion

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Carl Sandburg