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Odes Quotes by Victor Hugo
- The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
- 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…
More Odes Quotes
- To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing
- An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired… — 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. .… — Louise Bourgeois
- A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — 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… — William Faulkner
- Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — 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… — Richard Russo
- Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — 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… — Horace
- Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing… — Rabindranath Tagore