Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

John Godfrey Saxe

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Jean Toomer

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Jean Toomer

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Joan D. Vinge

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Connie Willis

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Connie Willis

Io suuicien lui damo amo," she said softly. "You are here in place of the friends I love.

Connie Willis

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Connie Willis

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

David Antin

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

David Antin

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

David Antin

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

David Antin

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

David Antin

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Diane Ackerman

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

Diane Ackerman

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Dorothy Allison

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Dorothy Allison

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

Dorothy Allison