And as for writing my poetry, he claimed the toil of it…

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly…

— Jim Butcher

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

— Aeschylus

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?”

— Catherine Lockwood

“9Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain [2] life that he has given you under the sun, because…

— Anonymous

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

— Aesop

“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my…

— Alexandria Clarke

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine.

— Meena Harris

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi