Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Aaron Swartz

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Blaise Pascal

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Vivian Stanshall

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Wendell Berry

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Wendell Berry

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Wendell Berry

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

William Congreve

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

W. H. Davies

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

William Davenant

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

William Dunbar

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

William Shenstone

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

William P. Young

It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The ...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Art is not in some far-off place.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Charlotte Mew And Her Friends

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Crime and Punishment