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Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

O, my luve's like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly...

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Rupert Brooke: If I should...

Rupert Brooke: If I should...

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever...

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Ogden Nash: Marriage is an...

Ogden Nash: Marriage is an...

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the...

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Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Source: Thomas ?...

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John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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Aeschylus: Old men are...

Aeschylus: Old men are...

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Source: Agamemnon.
--...

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Peter Shaffer: Everything we feel...

Peter Shaffer: Everything we feel...

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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Wole Soyinka: My father used...

Wole Soyinka: My father used...

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a...

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Tristan Bernard: In the theatre...

Tristan Bernard: In the theatre...

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

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J August Strindberg: Why is it...

J August Strindberg: Why is it...

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: A rich man...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: A rich man...

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their...

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John Keats: There is an...

John Keats: There is an...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is...

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Robert Frost: The best way...

Robert Frost: The best way...

The best way out is always through.

Source: A Servant to Servants
-- Robert...

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Pindar: Natural ability is...

Pindar: Natural ability is...

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of...

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William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that...

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Ludovico Ariosto: From heresy, frenzy,...

Ludovico Ariosto: From heresy, frenzy,...

From heresy, frenzy, and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Source: In 12,000...

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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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