Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

To Althea, from Prison

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The Age of Reason

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Autobiography of Red

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

Hourglass Museum

Toen fotograferen nog iets bijzonders was en een afdruk relatief duur lachte iedereen die op de foto ging. Alsof de foto zo meer waard werd.

Hersenschimmen

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Homeland and Other Stories

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

Her Fearful Symmetry

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.

Her Fearful Symmetry

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

The Iliad

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Illuminations

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The Iliad

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To Jerusalem and Back

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Jayber Crow

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Jayber Crow