Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Thomas Hood

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Thomas a Kempis

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Victoria Moran

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vikram Seth

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

George R. R. Martin

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Mary Astell

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Tamora Pierce

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Wilbur Smith

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Aimee Bender

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Allen Ginsberg

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Allen Tate

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Johnson