Action Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by…

— Wallace Stevens

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as…

— Eavan Boland

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless steps and…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games…

— Washington Irving

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

— John Milton

The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A…

— Brian D. McLaren

Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if…

— J. C. Ryle

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the…

— William Cowper

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what…

— Thucydides

the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to…

— Marah Ellis Ryan

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp