Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Cold Comfort Farm

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

The Captive & The Fugitive

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The Captive & The Fugitive

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

The Captive & The Fugitive

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

Haven't you enough money?' For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

Cold Comfort Farm

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Collected Fiction

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

The Changeling

-Ouve esta música? É a expressão da minha vida: uma partitura admirável, estragada por um horrível, por um infame executante...

A Confissão de Lúcio

But glad to have sat under Thunder and rain with you, And grateful too For sunlight on the garden.

Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Canaan

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

tu es noeud de relations et rien d'autre. Et tu existes par tes liens. Tes liens existent par toi. Le temple existe par chacune des pierres. (chapitre CLXXV)

Citadelle

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Complete Works

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Decreation

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

Dark of the Moon

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Dream Songs: Poems

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

The Dream Songs: Poems