Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Mark Doty

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Marilyn Hacker

Varios tragos es la vida y un solo trago es la muerte. (del poema "Sentado sobre los muertos")

Miguel Hernández

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Mary Karr

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Mary Karr

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Mary Karr

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

Mary Karr

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Mary Karr

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Martin Luther

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

Michael Moorcock

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

Rosamund Pike

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

Ruth Pitter

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Robert Penn Warren

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Robert Penn Warren

I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.

Sylvia Browne

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Sylvia Browne

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

Sylvia Browne

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

Sylvia Browne

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

Sylvia Browne

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver