Quotes of: Poe Keyword

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.

Kim Sowol

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Louise Bogan

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Lise Deharme

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

Linda Hogan

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Lisel Mueller

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Laura Riding

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Laura Riding

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Louis Zukofsky

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Margaret Atwood

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

Max Beerbohm

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

Mary Jo Bang

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Max Beerbohm

I don't have a game plan. I have no idea what I'll be doing next.

Michael Cristofer

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Mark Doty

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Marilyn Hacker

Varios tragos es la vida y un solo trago es la muerte. (del poema "Sentado sobre los muertos")

Miguel Hernández