A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Sprawled out on the photographer’s mattress with my clothes lying in a heap somewhere in the kitchen, I pull the waistband of… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.” — Susan Örnbratt Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be." "It's not one-hundredth as much fun.” — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road. — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life -… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image