Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

Melincourt; Or Sir Oran Hautton

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

The Minority Report

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Nightwood

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes.

Nightingale Wood

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

The Odyssey

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

The Lacuna

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Letters of John Keats

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary

Lunch Poems

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

The Living

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Science & Human Values

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

Swann's Way

My body, still too heavy with sleep to move...

Swann's Way

What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.

Swann's Way

... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

Swann's Way

A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought -- But no, a butterfly.

Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.

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