Comfort Quote by Flora Thompson

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature,…

— Walter Savage Landor

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

“To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to…

— St. Augustine

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

— J. D. Salinger

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor…

— Philip Sidney

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“The poet must be in the right, not only in his esthetic, but in his scientific point of view,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is nonetheless at…

— Georges Bataille