Doe Quote by Stevie Smith

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

— Stevie Smith

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also…

— Stevie Smith

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

— Alice Englert

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition…

— Shimon Peres

Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new…

— Alvar Aalto

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

— William Wycherley

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

— James M. Cain

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead