Odes Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather… — Dilys Laing
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode. — Ambrose Bierce
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux
The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders,… — Louise Bourgeois
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. — Wynn Bullock
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'… — William Faulkner
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my… — Richard Russo
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for… — Alfred North Whitehead
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'. — Horace
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit,… — Rabindranath Tagore
Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing… — Ian Anderson
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one… — James Fenton
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high… — Victor Hugo
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in… — Jane Seymour
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… — Virginia Woolf

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