Quotes of: Poe Keyword

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men’s feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

Swann's Way

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Selected Works

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Swann's Way

I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

Swann's Way

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

A Tale for the Time Being

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from thes...

Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Thirst

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

The Poisonwood Bible

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

The Poisonwood Bible

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

The Poisonwood Bible

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

The Poisonwood Bible

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek