Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Anne Carson

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

Annie Dillard

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Annie Dillard

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Andrea Dworkin

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Andrea Dworkin

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Annie Dillard

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

Annie Dillard

... It's the rare God who needs less stroking that a rock Star or poetician ...

Alice Fulton

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Alice Fulton

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Andrew Motion

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Adela Florence Nicolson

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Adela Florence Nicolson

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Alice Oswald

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Alice Oswald

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Alice Oswald

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle