Poetry Quote by Robert Desnos Download Open image ““O balances sentimentales.”” — Robert Desnos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.” — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.” — Thomas Payne Copy Share Image
“There's no doubt you balance me, Maren. I have fun when I'm with you and you make me laugh. You give that to me.… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.” — Normandi Ellis Copy Share Image
“Tenderly, be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.)” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out… — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi Copy Share Image
“The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
