Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Edward Gorey

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Elizabeth Jennings

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

Bill Maher

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

Bill Maher

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Bryan Procter

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

George Herbert

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante