An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising… — George Croly Copy Share Image
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my… — Ibn al-Farid Copy Share Image
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I laugh, I smile, I talk a while. You laugh, you smile, you stay a while. I'm hurt, I hide, I wear… — Erica E Copy Share Image
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“I could almost see the resignation on the old man’s face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment. — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her… — Sarah Helen Whitman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could join them... The fish, I mean. Really, could you imagine? How splendid it would be... to swim… — Ryan Andrews Copy Share Image
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you! — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n;… — William Watson Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
