Men Quote by Walter Savage Landor

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second…

— Edmund Spenser

“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers who may…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh /She/, I…

— H. Rider Haggard

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second…

— Edmund Spenser

I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and…

— Anonymous

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my…

— Pat Conroy

“WHERE ONCE THE WATERS ON YOUR FACE Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead…

— Dylan Thomas

“So many requests, always, from a lover! None when they fall out of love. I'm glad the water does not move under the colourless…

— Anna Akhmatova

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze…

— Alister E. McGrath

“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's…

— John Donne