Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

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Vlinders zijn de meest vergankelijke, gracieuze schepsels ter wereld. Ze worden uit het niets geboren, verlangen stilletjes naar iets heel kleins en beperkts, om uiteindelijk weer als in het niets te verdwijnen.

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Silencio Se oye el pulso del mundo como nunca pálido La tierra acaba de alumbrar un árbol.

Altazor, Or, a Voyage in a Parachute: Poem in VII Cantos

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Animal Dreams

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

Animal Dreams

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Animal Dreams

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The Ascent of Man

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

All the King's Men

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

Antigone

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

Antigone

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

All Families are Psychotic

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The Interpretation of Dreams

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

The Iliad

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

The Iliad

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

The Iliad

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Invisible Monsters