“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“You're so critical. Oh, God, I'd do anything for you to stop blaming me for every little thing that goes wrong. Love… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits of flesh floated… — P.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were… — Lorna Sage Copy Share Image
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I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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