Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Cane

...I would not engage the wombat In any form of mortal combat.

Custard and Company: Poems

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

The Complete Poems

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

Complete Works

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.

Different Hours

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

Different Hours

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

A Different Person: A Memoir

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

The Dream Songs: Poems

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree: A Novel

You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

Flight Behavior

I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

Flight Behavior

Bo podía darle lo que ella quería. No cuando..." Dio algunos pasos en mi dirección. "No cuando mi corazón pertenece a otra persona

Frostbite

I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.

Fuse

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.

Fling and Other Stories

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas, 'the way one commits a crime.

Geography III

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

The Battle of the Labyrinth