Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Anne Sexton

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Anne Sexton

And a bird overhead sang Follow, And a bird to the right sang Here; And the arch of the leaves was hollow, And the meaning of May was clear.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Billy Corgan

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.

Alan Alda

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Alexei Navalny

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Anna Sewell

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

Buffalo Bill

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Barbara Deming

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Bryant H. McGill

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Boyd Rice

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Caroline Kennedy

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Samuel Daniel

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

dropped and falling from such heights for so long that maybe I will have enough time to learn flying

Vera Pavlova

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Vivian Stanshall

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

William Congreve