Happiness Quote by John Green

“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents…

— John Green

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“Still, when your truthful eyes, your keen, attentive stare, endow the vacuous slut with royalty, when you match her soul to her shimmering hair,…

— Lisel Mueller

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid…

— John Milton

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes, Under this stone one loved too wildly lies; How false she was, no granite could declare;…

— Walter de la Mare

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty…

— Andrew Marvell

“She liked to convey that she was well acquainted with the smartness and the manners of the stylish world, but that she had got…

— Robert Musil

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong

“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me…

— Roman Payne

“Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.”

— Allen Ginsberg

“In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that…

— Virginia Woolf