His Pen Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

• Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that… — Joseph Brodsky
• If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion… — Theodore Parker
• So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man… — Gino Bartali
• What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it… — John Ciardi
• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… — Samuel Johnson
• Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is… — Michael Ondaatje
• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter… — Robert Breault
• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. — Edmond Jabes
• We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds,… — Max Lucado
• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to… — Maimonides
• A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've… — Patrick Rothfuss
• The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light. — Joyce Kilmer
• Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear… — Mary Karr
• His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for… — Richelle Mead
• I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened his pen nib,… — Gail Carriger
• Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.'… — Patrick deWitt
• Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. — Henry Vaughan

Who Wrote These His Pen Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 28 His Pen Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 His Pen Quotes by Matt Belsante
• 1 His Pen Quote by Michael Ondaatje
• 1 His Pen Quote by Robert Breault
• 1 His Pen Quote by Edmond Jabes
• 1 His Pen Quote by Max Lucado
• 1 His Pen Quote by Maimonides
• 1 His Pen Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 His Pen Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 His Pen Quote by Joyce Kilmer
• 1 His Pen Quote by Mary Karr
• 1 His Pen Quote by Richelle Mead
• 1 His Pen Quote by Gail Carriger
• 1 His Pen Quote by Patrick deWitt
• 1 His Pen Quote by Henry Vaughan
• 1 His Pen Quote by William Cullen Bryant
• 1 His Pen Quote by Jason Williams
• 1 His Pen Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle
• 1 His Pen Quote by Marky Goldstein
• 1 His Pen Quote by Alexander Theroux
• 1 His Pen Quote by Camille Flammarion
• 1 His Pen Quote by Joseph Brodsky
• 1 His Pen Quote by Theodore Parker
• 1 His Pen Quote by Philip Sidney
• 1 His Pen Quote by Gino Bartali
• 1 His Pen Quote by John Ciardi