Writing Quote by Robert Burton Download Open image ““All Poets are mad.”” — Robert Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;” — Cyril Tourneur Copy Share Image
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
