Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

Arthur Rimbaud

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

Adrienne Rich

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Alexander McCall Smith

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Anne Stevenson

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Anne Sexton

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Anne Sexton

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Anne Sexton

And a bird overhead sang Follow, And a bird to the right sang Here; And the arch of the leaves was hollow, And the meaning of May was clear.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Billy Corgan

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.

Alan Alda

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Alexei Navalny

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Anna Sewell