Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

Giles Andreae

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

George Chapman

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Countee Cullen

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Carol Ann Duffy

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Carol Ann Duffy

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Carol Ann Duffy

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Carol Ann Duffy

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Carolyn Kizer

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Carl Lewis

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Carl Lewis

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

Carl Lewis

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

Carl Lewis

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

Carl Lewis

I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

Carl Lewis

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Carl Lewis

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

Carl Lewis

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Charlotte Lennox

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay