Poetry Quote by Derek Mahon Download Open image ““You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary, Let not our naive labours have been in vain!”” — Derek Mahon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?” — Henry Dircks Copy Share Image
“Lay still the business of the mind. Let its workers put down their tools and turn to face the glory of the midday Sun.” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours… — Dr Jayaswal Copy Share Image
“In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“.....the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about. — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
“Everything Is Going to Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image