Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Frank O'Hara

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Frank O'Hara

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Freya Stark

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

Carol Ann Duffy

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

Carl Lewis

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Carl Lewis

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Craig Raine

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Christina Rossetti

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Howard Nemerov

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Howard Nemerov

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Henry Rollins

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Howard Rheingold

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Howard Rheingold

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Ian Rankin