Poetry Quote by A. E. Stallings Download Open image ““. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.”” — A. E. Stallings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poets
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“May I introduce you all to the main course?" Morpheus spreads out an arm with a dramatic flare. "Dinner, meet your worthy adversaries, the… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
“Morpheus turns his face to the sky. “I’m afraid you’re the one who’s mistaken, if you think I’m going to let Wonderland fall to… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to inform instruction,… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot’s perspective ended up getting more things done.” — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it… — Jade Lee Copy Share Image
“And suddenly I felt panic. I'd made a mistake, like when I'd played chess with Ray and knew a second too late I'd made… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was… — Dinah Katt Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
