She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows") — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Yet, she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. .… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Oh! What a Lovely War,' and one of… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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