Quotes of: Poe Keyword

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Theodore White

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Edgar Lee Masters

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Jessica Hagedorn

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Mattie Stepanek

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

William Dean Howells

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

Wilfred Owen

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young