Quotes of: Poe Keyword

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Francis of Assisi

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.

Francisco X. Alarcón

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick William Faber

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life

Frank O'Hara

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Frank O'Hara

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Francis Ponge

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Francis Quarles

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Frederick Tennyson

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Fay Weldon

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

Franz Wright

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

Franz Wright

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Fay Weldon

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Fay Weldon

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

Giles Andreae

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

George Chapman

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Countee Cullen

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Carol Ann Duffy

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Carol Ann Duffy

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Carol Ann Duffy