Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Annie Besant

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Annie Besant

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Annie Besant

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish." [ ]

Anne Bradstreet

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Abraham Cowley

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Ana Castillo

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Ana Castillo

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Arthur Hugh Clough

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Abraham Cowley

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Anne Carson

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

Annie Dillard

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Annie Dillard

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Andrea Dworkin

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Andrea Dworkin

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Annie Dillard

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

Annie Dillard