Love's boat has been shatteredagainst the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
A changing skyline. A slice of window filled in by a middle-distancing oblong topped by little moving figures. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; — William Barnes Copy Share Image
To-morrow when the sun, For all your images, Comes up as the sun, bull fire, Your images will have left No shadow… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Do you see this egg? With thisyou can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshacklingsea exults — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The rain fell, the floods came,and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though thisbe fled. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head. Then am I ready, like… — Sir Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distempered blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
.. like a Wave on a beach, that thinks it's had this Tremendous idea, coming to crash on the beach Like that,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals, Focus the tragic… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, thequeers of homosexuality. In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
He had seen the end of an era,the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city in the USA… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and workedtogether I never heard or saw… — Kate Virginia Cox Logan Copy Share Image
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I at length reached the last house but one, where the path to the summit diverged to the right, while the summititself… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Macavity, Macavity, there's noone like Macavity, He's broken every human law,he breaks the law of gravity. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
This was the kind of man thatwas at home there; for, as near as I can learn, that has never been the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pilot to crew. Take a good look at Pearl Harbor. Maybe it's something you'll want to remember. — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
But the People Will not let us alone; will not credit, condone Art-loves that shun Them (moderate Christians rotting in the sun.) — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thou almost mak'st me waverin my faith To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Give ear to my prayer, O God;and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me:I mourn in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God not created woman only for fulfill men's physical desire but also because of are created the women that can make men's… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I can nail my left palm to the left-hand cross-piecebut, I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the… — Alan Dugan Copy Share Image
The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If you understand that you known everything about any subjects then you don't know anything. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The buds swell imperceptibly,without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image