Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it.… — F. Burton Howard Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which… — Charles Fenno Hoffman Copy Share Image
The union of hearts-the union of hands-And the flag of our Union forever. - George Pope Morris. Your flag and my flag,… — Wilbur D. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
