Quotes by Poets - Page 81

I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.
Daniel Zomparelli
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.*She’s a stubborn little brat.*
William Shakespeare
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
William Shakespeare
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.
William Shakespeare
Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
Michael Ondaatje
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.
Novalis
Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.
Novalis
Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.
Jorge Luis Borges
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
Michael Ondaatje
Zero is the number people often feel, more so than one.
Anthony Liccione
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D.H. Lawrence
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.
Catherynne M. Valente
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
Robert Penn Warren
If poetry dies, nothing lives !
Vihang A. Naik
It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.
Gift Gugu Mona
But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.
Maggie Nelson
Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing.
Gift Gugu Mona
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
T.S Eliot
Ninth Floorshe ran across the parquet slipped the flokati matcrashed the windownoshe stood at the window prism looked up at sky bruise nightspread hernoshe tilted dived swanning spinningtip-toed ink air broke fingers firstnoshe climbed the small gap the window gavehung her finger joints clotted the view with frightened breathfell ligament torn and sorrynoshe wandered to the glass hatch to watch tranquilised lights sputteringleaned too hard fell faster than a bottle of Jacknothis is how it was:drunk screaming she crashed the parquet with griefroared the ungiving window frames which gaveshe spangled spaghetti-like ribbon-voicedstreet lights crashed on herno.She did nothing.
Karin Schimke
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")
Conrad Aiken
I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.
Milarepa
When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")
Walter de la Mare
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
Margaret Atwood
What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?'The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.
Michel Houellebecq
I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.
Patrick Branwell Brontë
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
Charles Bukowski
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.
Charles Bukowski
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robert Frost
If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer
Margaret Atwood
Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.
Santosh Kalwar
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Charmaine J.Forde
Failure is the new success.
Phil Volatile
Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem
We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.
Anthony Liccione
I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.
Steven Herrick
Today is the best time to do what you couldn't do yesterday, because tomorrow might be too late.
Gift Gugu Mona
Love is a word, another kind of open.As the diamond comesinto a knot of flameI am Blackbecause I come from the earth's insidetake my word for jewelin the open light.
Audre Lorde
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up
Margaret Atwood
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing….I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.
Margaret Atwood
Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
Barbara Kingsolver
I dwell in possibility…
Emily Dickinson
It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
Richard Armour
It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.
D.H. Lawrence
Some conversations are not about what they're about.
Anne Carson
It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance.
Louisa Hall
The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty minutes were tragic in tone, with the word fate used ten times and the word friendship twenty-four times. Liz Norton's name was spoken fifty times, nine of them in vain. The word Paris was said seven times, Madrid, eight. The word love was spoken twice, once by each man. The word horror was spoken six times and the word happiness once (by Espinoza). The word solution was said twelve times. The word solipsism seven times. The world euphemism ten times. The word category, in the singular and the plural, nine times. The word structuralism once (Pelletier). The term American literature three times. The words dinner or eating or breakfast or sandwich nineteen times. The words eyes or hands or hair fourteen times. The the conversation proceeded more smoothly.
Roberto Bolaño
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
Cees Nooteboom
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine
Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.
Pindar
A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style.
Gugu Mona
Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources.
Gugu Mona
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
Kahlil Gibran
In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.For fire flames but in the heart of a colder fire.All voice is but echo caught from a soundless voice.Height is not deprivation of valley, nor defect of desire,But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys should rejoice.
Robert Penn Warren
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
Jalaluddin Rumi
All I have is a voice.
W.H. Auden
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?
Kenneth Patchen
Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema
Munia Khan
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?
Margaret Atwood