Age Quote by Paul Laurence Dunbar Download Open image “The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.” — Paul Laurence Dunbar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Age Materialistic Age Writing Materialistic Materialistic Verse Poetry Prose Verse Verse Isn Verses Writing
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is… — Rodney Compton Copy Share Image
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Love me, honey, love me true? Love me well ez I love you? An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do" -- Jump back, honey,… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Years I the years the answer lies, Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“What dreams we have and how they fly Like rosy clouds across the sky; Of wealth, of fame, of sure success, Of love that… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest! — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
