Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

Christina Rossetti

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Cheryl Strayed

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Homer

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Howard Nemerov

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Howard Nemerov

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Howard Nemerov

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Howard Nemerov

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

Hermann Oberth

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

Howard Rheingold

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Howard Rheingold

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Howard Rheingold

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Howard Rheingold

People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Howard Rheingold

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Howard Rheingold

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jacob Bronowski

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Joanna Baillie

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman