Destination Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destination Odes Poetry Posterity
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly unnatural; however,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
India should emerge as a destination that attracts people to invest here, which, in turn, will give a boost to investment, industrial growth and… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours,… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the right path.… — Amaka Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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