Quotes of: True-poet Keyword

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Aristophanes

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian ...

50 Essays

like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're childre...

Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

...so you have found me and would know the tale. When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, waht hope has truth? Let me ask this, then. DOes one find memory in invention? Or will you find invention in memory? Wich bows in servitude befor the other?...

Steven Erikson

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist. There's just us and an ocean of darkness around us. ...

The White Tiger

Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create a mask of makeup that is intended to “fix” their “imperfections.” They identify so much with this mask they reject their true beauty. ...

Feminine Transitions: A Photographic Celebration of Natural Beauty

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True happiness lies in not being dependent on such random and fleeting things. And because happiness does not cons...

Sophie's World

Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affe...

The Religious Affections

Leah, wake up." Dougal sat on the edge of her bed and patted her shoulder. "Mmm," she moaned. "What is it,Howard?" "Howard? Are ye dreaming of Howard?" Her eyes flickered open. "Dougal?" "Aye, 'tis me, yer true love, Dougal." She smiled drowsily at h...

Kerrelyn Sparks

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and ...

Albert Camus

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would o...

William James

True strength comes from the mind and spirit.

Children of Fire

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire

Adoption is grief in reverse.

The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.

In The Eye Of Deception: A True Story

True love stories never have endings.

Finding Home

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople