Alarms Quote by Charles Churchill

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one…

— Lauren Willig

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert…

— Charlotte Brontë

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster

“She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why…

— Markus Zusak

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

“Losing his temper was a luxury he rarely permitted himself, but for the past week he'd been invaded by a sullen gloom that weighted…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Power within A wiser woman kin I cannot give her The proper word She is worth so much more She is the one that…

— Maddy Kobar

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel