I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato Copy Share Image
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family,… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
