Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Mary Karr

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Mary Karr

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Mary Karr

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

Mary Karr

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Mary Karr

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Martin Luther

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

Ruth Pitter

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Robert Penn Warren

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Robert Penn Warren

I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.

Sylvia Browne

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Sylvia Browne

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

Sylvia Browne

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

Sylvia Browne

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

Sylvia Browne

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Marcel Proust