Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Père Goriot

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Politics

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock." "Wow. You're so humble.

Pure

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Poems of Christina Rossetti

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Psion

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Poetics

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

Poetics

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Transformations

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Time Regained

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Tree of Smoke

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Totem and Taboo

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

This Simian World

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

The Time Traveler's Wife

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

The Time Traveler's Wife

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The Time Traveler's Wife