Life Quotes

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Wallace Stevens

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the scholar's art.

Wallace Stevens

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

William Stafford

There will never be an end To this droning of the surf.

Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

Wallace Stevens

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

William Stafford

. . . On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?

William Stafford

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going...

William Stafford

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

William Stafford

A change of style is a change of meaning.

Wallace Stevens

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

William Stafford

All things lie dark in possibility.

William Saroyan

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

Wise saying

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

Wallace Stevens

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

William Shakespeare

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got." (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)

William Shatner

All's well if all ends well.

William Shakespeare

Dame los puñales; los que duermen y los muertos no son sino sombras; únicamente los ojos de los niños tiemblan ante una estampa del diablo.

William Shakespeare