Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down,… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image