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Philip James Bailey: The worst men...

Philip James Bailey: The worst men...

The worst men often give the best advice.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Wilfred Owen: And in the...

Wilfred Owen: And in the...

And in the happy no-time of his sleeping
Death took him by the heart.


Source:...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,<br>let us<br>march...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,
let us
march...

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year...

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Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

The soul has many motions, body one.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...

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Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Source: The...

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Antonin Artaud: But how is...

Antonin Artaud: But how is...

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential...

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Martial: Each day provides...

Martial: Each day provides...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Source: Epigrams, 8, 78, A.D. 86; tr. Walter C. A....

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Martial: Those they praise,...

Martial: Those they praise,...

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Source: Epigrammata, IV, 49.
--...

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Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a...

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Joe Orton: The kind of...

Joe Orton: The kind of...

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad...

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Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

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Robert E Sherwood: To be able...

Robert E Sherwood: To be able...

To be able to write a play . . . a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be...

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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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Luigi Pirandello: A fact is...

Luigi Pirandello: A fact is...

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the...

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Aphra Behn: There is no...

Aphra Behn: There is no...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Source: Willmore, in The Rover, act 1, sc....

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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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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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