Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.