Urn Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would…
— John Ruskin
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Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
— Horace
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I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.
— Lynn Flewelling
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws…
— William Cowper
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round…
— Nina Cassian
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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
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Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
— Thomas Gray
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As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
— J. D. McClatchy
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
— Horace
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
— Friedrich Schiller
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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern…
— Wilbur Smith
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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
— Oscar Wilde
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The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
— William Faulkner
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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
— Aeschylus
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
— William Faulkner
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Bren MacMacGuff: Juno, by any chance did you throw up in my urn? Because there was this funky blue shit in it. Juno: No, Bren,…
— Juno (The Movie)
Who Wrote These Urn Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Urn Quotes as follows: