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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

Mary Oliver

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Mary Oliver

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

Meghan O'Rourke

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Meghan O'Rourke

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

Nizar Qabbani

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.