Book Quote by Robert Frost

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

“We hold in our hands a key to peace on earth, yet it has been overlooked. It is the near-death experience. It must be…

— April Michelle Lewis

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that…

— Henry David Thoreau

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown…

— E. P. Thompson

A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round…

— Elizabeth Bowen

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even…

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we…

— John Updike