Desperate Quote by Nikky Finney

“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were…

— Steven Millhauser

“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

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

— Matthew Arnold

“into which he placed a large-print copy of Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” To this he added the bookworms, who busily…

— Jasper Fforde

“While the poets were above all interested in the fluid and fugitive aspects of Nature, others desired, by slogging away with a hatchet and…

— Novalis

“A LITTLE while, a little while, The weary task is put away, And I can sing and I can smile, Alike, while I have…

— Emily Brontë

“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and…

— Donna Tartt

“I know that western sky. Sometimes when I'm alone painting, a blind lifts and I let my mind drift back. I remember walking out…

— Dawn Tripp

“The man exhaled and wondered. He thought about the squid, and he thought about summers divested of chill and abundant with the strange precocity…

— Kirk Marshall

“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that kind of…

— Nabokov Vladimir

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full…

— James W. Sire