Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The Writing Life

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

The Writing Life

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

When God Whispers Your Name

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

Grief doesn't have a face.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Samuel Daniel

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine-

The Man in the High Castle

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Homer

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Homer

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Meghan O'Rourke

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Meghan O'Rourke

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

Meghan O'Rourke

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Naguib Mahfouz

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

Neal Shusterman

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

Nicholas Trandahl

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Ogden Nash