Her hands intend no harm: Her hands devote themselves To sheltering a flame… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
And the whole of the soul, Swenson, As every man in Sweden will concede, Still hankers after lions, or, toshift, Still hankers… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is turning three hundred years On our cisatlantic shore For family after family name. We'll make it three hundred more — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: That women are timid: And 'tis well they… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I see those two hearts, I'm afraid, Still. Cool here in the graveyard of good and evil, They are even so to… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A sense of the present rises out of earth and grass, enters the feet, ascends into the genitals, constricting the breast… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at thedoor! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I should delight to have my curls half drowned In Tyrian dews, and head with roses crowned, And once more yet (ere… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
As one who over taken by the end Gives up his errand, and lets death descend Upon him where he is, with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer venturednear my house for a week or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode ofconduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extentunwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust itwe perpetuate it within ourselves like… — EM Cioran Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Among the Indians he had fought; And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear; Such tales as told… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, butalmost the exact contraryin one idea. When… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mrs. de Winter: Mrs. Danvers must be furious with me. Maxim de Winter: Oh, hang Mrs. Danvers! Why on earth should you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreativefaculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make anew acquaintance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Twelve lords a-leaping. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now sit we close about this taper here, And call in question our necessities. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
