Lost Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Download Open image “A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lost Misused Pens Poetry
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth turn into… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being… — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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