“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner Copy Share Image
There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
