Doe Quote by Orhan Pamuk

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

— Truman Capote

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and…

— William Butler Yeats

“I make a decree, and it shall be published from the mountains to the mountains; your names, Incubu, Macumazahn, and Bougwan, shall be "hlonipa"…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Chuang-tzu: ‘‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.”

— Alan W. Watts

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid,…

— Cities

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons,” the tale always ended. “For dragons fly.”

— George R.R. Martin

“MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be…

— Oscar Wilde

“Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his…

— NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM

“The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones to my…

— Frank Lambert

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers… One…

— Knut Hamsun