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“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! Richard, Act V, scene iv.”
“Off with his head! Richard, Act III, scene iv.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Richard, Act I, scene i.”
“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones Shakespeare's epitaph”
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture Shakespeare's will”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care The Passionate Pilgrim : A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.”
“That deep torture may be called a hell, When more is felt than one hath power to tell. The Rape of Lucrece .”
“Time 's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light . The Rape of Lucrece .”
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. The Rape of Lucrece (1594).”
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”
“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion. Starting from Paumanok. 7”
“I will write the evangel”
“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere”
“Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!”
“I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings. Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II”
“There was a kind of labor agitator here today”
“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
“The Spanish Element in Our Nationality,”
“Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War”
“I have just this moment heard from the front”
“Endure the hardships of your present state, and live through unhappy times. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“The greatest wealth is health.”
“Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to remember even these things. The Aeneid, Book 1”
“Time flies never to be recalled.”
“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“Fury itself supplies arms.”
“The descent to the underworld is easy; the gate of darkness stands open day and night. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Eclogues, X”
“They can because they think they can.”
“I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy came to Italy. The Aeneid, Book 1”
“Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé. Histoire d'un crime. Déposition d'un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint”
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“The best way to worship God is to love your wife. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief! Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“One can no more pray too much than love too much. Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort”
“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection. Unpublished notebook from 1845”
“Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme! God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V”
“Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur! These two halves of God , the Pope and the emperor. Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II”
“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks ( c . 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier”
“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is Jellyorum and its one Idea is to be Useful!! Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber”
“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "Dante" (1929), in Selected Essays (1932), p. 238”
“My general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo”
“... were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. "Journey of the Magi”
“There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. "Journey of the Magi”
“Journey of the Magi”
“A dangerous person to disagree with. On Samuel Johnson , in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century”
“The Contemporary English Novelist”
“Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith. Letter to Richard Aldington”
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. " Philip Massinger ", a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood”
“Which is more to blame, though both may do wrong: she who sins for payment, or he who pays for sin?”
“Divine rose that in gentle culture, you are, with your fragrant subtlety, purple magistracy in beauty, snowy lesson to loveliness”
“The whole world is opinions, of such varied judgments, that what one calls black, another proves is white”
“It is not wisdom to be wise in vain discourse; true wisdom lies in choosing what is sound”
“He who listens and learns, it is only right that he should attend and be silent”
“Reason has never been an offense”
“Even knowledge grows tiresome when it is one's profession”
“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more”
“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less”
“Foolish men who accuse women without reason, not seeing that you are the occasion of the very thing you blame”
“In Spanish, we have a tradition of open”
“From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often”
“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Pity for Him Who One Day .”
“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Fatalidad (Fatality) .”
“I am not on a bed of roses”
“Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.”
“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal"”
“Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.”
“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) . I Seek a Form (1896).”
“There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. Mowing”
“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. Mowing”
“I do not see why I should e'er turn back , Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew”
“Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell her so, And they are better for her praise. My November Guest”
“The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why. My November Guest”
“Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted gray Is silver now with clinging mist. My November Guest”
“My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. My November Guest”
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching”
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Letter to Louis Untermeyer”
“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching. Letter to Sidney Cox”
“I know how reluctant it makes us feel to give any credit for humanity to the western civilisation when we observe the brutalities into which this nationalism of theirs breaks out, instances of which are so numerous all the world over,”
“Nationalism in the West”
“The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part, wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings. Letter to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, renouncing his knighthood in protest of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre .”
“Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.”
“When the other person understands that I am not trying to enslave him, or not forcing him to do things against his will, he will surely understand I am doing what every human should do unto another. He will understand that with “ Bande Mataram ” we are worshipping a motherland whose children are the great and the small. Then, we will not insult or demean anyone through our attitudes, words and thoughts whether Muslim or lower caste, Bihari or Oriya, English educated or not”
“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. I took a few steps down that road and stopped; for when I cannot retain my faith in universal man standing over and above my country, when patriotic prejudices overshadow my God, I feel inwardly starved. 1908 letter to Aurobindo Mohan Bose, quoted in Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore , Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“I cannot but bring to your mind those days when the whole of Eastern Asia, from Burma to Japan was united with India in the closest ties of friendship... Rabindranath Tagore, Essays, Nationalism in Japan, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2007 p.471, and quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp [1]”
“To know my country one has to travel to that age, when she realized her soul and thus transcended her physical boundaries when she revealed her being in a radiant magnanimity which illumined the eastern horizon, making her recognized as their own by those in alien shores who were awakened into a surprise of life.”
“It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda , defying the age”
“La Barcarola Termina (The Watersong Ends) (1967), trans. Anthony Kerrigan in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0”
“Soliloquio en Tinieblas (Soliloquy at Twilight) from Estravagario (Book of Vagaries) (1958).”
“Mi amor se nutre de tu amor, amada My love feeds on your love, beloved From "Si Tu Me Olvidas"”
“Oda a la Bella Desnuda (Ode to a Beautiful Nude) , from Nuevas Odas Elementales (1956), trans. Nathaniel Tarn in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0”
“Debajo de tu piel vive la luna. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
“A Tale of Two Gardens”
“We are condemned”
“Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy”
“I am a man: little do I last”
“Between going and staying the day wavers,”
“Motion", as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957”
“If you are the amber mare”
“To fight evil is to fight ourselves. Itinerary”
“Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry . Poetry is in love with the instant and seeks to relive it in the poem, thus separating it from sequential time and turning it into a fixed present. But at that time I wrote without wondering why I was doing it. I was searching for the gateway to the present: I wanted to belong to my time and to my century. A little later this obsession became a fixed idea: I wanted to be a modern poet. My search for modernity had begun. Nobel Lecture”
“There can be no society without poetry , but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot. "Signs in Rotation" (1967) in The Bow and the Lyre : The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (1973) as translated by Ruth L.C. Simms, p. 249”
“There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. The list of singers, musicians, and poets must include David the harpist from the Old Testament, Aesop the Storyteller, Omar Khayyam the Tent Maker, Shakespeare the Bard of Avon, Louis Armstrong the genius of New Orleans, Om Kalsoum the soul of Egypt, Frank Sinatra , Mahalia Jackson , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles ... Celia Cruz ...All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter”
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within”
“I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life . As quoted in Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities (2006) by Brian Mayne, p. 84”
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. As quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero”
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry , but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh , eat , worry , and die , it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends . Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind , true, merciful , generous , or honest . As quoted in USA Today”
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense . No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.”
“… There is an African saying which is:”
“We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*”
“The Black Man Speaks,”
“I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind. "Morning After," (l. 1”
“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken”
“Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington 's grave),”
“Song for a Dark Girl”
“The stars went out and so did the moon . The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. " The Weary Blues ", in The Weary Blues”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people. "My People", in the magazine Poems in Crisis (October 1923); reprinted in The Weary Blues”
“They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed”
“, in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959); it is also often referred to as”
“Music is the language of the spirit.”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Work is love made visible.”
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life longing for itself.”
“A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN”
“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves.”
“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die. "I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems , chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77”
“Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado”
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury ; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones , and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways”
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism. "Heroic Reason", as translated by H. R. Hays, in Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez (1957) edited by Eugenio Florit, p. 231.”
“Poetry and Literature”
“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! "Western Moon" in Canción (1935).”
“Nostalgia aguda, infinita, terrible, de lo que tengo. Sharp nostalgia, infinite And terrible, for what I already possess!”
“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Dedication of the Statue of Liberty”
“Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. Henry Ward Beecher”
“A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men. A Glance at the North American's Soul Today”
“To beautify life is to give it an object. On Oscar Wilde”
“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. On Oscar Wilde”
“Oh, what company good poets are! Longfellow”
“Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation! Amor”
“Life on earth is a hand”
“Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven firstborn!”
“Free will is the foundation of human dignity.”
“To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.”
“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
“Awake, arise or be forever fallen!”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. He holds the boy in the crook of his arm He holds him safe, he keeps him warm. Der Erlkönig”
“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash. Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar”
“Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world. Claudine von Villa Bella”
“One lives but once in the world . Clavigo , Act I, sc. i”
“I hold to faith in the divine love”
“Alternative translation: So certain is it that he alone is great and happy, who requires neither to command nor to obey, in order to secure his being of some importance in the world. Götz von Berlichingen , Act I (1773), p. 39”
“So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein! He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”
“Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. There is strong shadow where there is much light . Götz von Berlichingen , Act I”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography”
“Resolve to do right; leave the rest to fate.”
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. The Odyssey, Book 11”
“Courage is not something that can be measured, but it is something that can be given.”
“The journey is long and full of hardships.”
“Light is the task when many share the toil.”
“A sympathetic man can make even a stranger his friend.”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worthy to die for.”
“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. The Odyssey, Book 15”
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. The Odyssey, Book 6”
“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. The Iliad, Book 1”
“What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it is dignity!”
“Love is a chaos of light and shadows. Woman, an amalgam of perjury and tenderness. Man, an abyss of greatness and smallness.”
“Solitude is very beautiful... when you have someone to tell it to.”
“For a look, a world; for a smile, a heaven; for a kiss... I don't know what I would give you for a kiss!”
“The soul that can speak through its eyes can also kiss with its gaze.”
“There may be no poets, but there will always be poetry.”
“What is poetry? You ask while fixing your blue pupil on my pupil. What is poetry? And you ask me? Poetry... is you.”
“Message about the Jews,”
“Let's not ask our countries to accept a massive number of desolate Jewish immigrants. But let's do ask that they”
“Hunt? the Jewish dog for being an infidel.”
“It would be foolish for our America to latch onto the filthy tail of this antisemitic campaign. We have enough to do in our own nations”
“The German, Polish, or Lithuanian Jew has been deprived of the sacred right to escape and be free.”
“Piececitos de niño, Dos joyitas sufrientes, ¡Cómo pasan sin veros Las gentes! Little feet of children, two tiny suffering jewels, how can people pass and not see you!”
“Fragment from "Palabras Serenas”
“Theory and Play of the Duende”
“Verte desnuda es recordar la Tierra. To see you naked is to recall the Earth. " Casidas ," IV: Casida de la Mujer Tendida from Primeras Canciones”
“Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña. Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. " Romance Sonámbulo " from Primer romancero gitano”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. A little Madness in the Spring”
“By the Book: Julia Alvarez”
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Letter to Louise Norcross (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 499, no. 379”
“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381”
“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a”
“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur”
“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193”
“Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A circus passed the house”
“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts . Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles. Letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850); Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.) Letters of Emily Dickinson , vol. 1 (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894) p. 39 [1] [2]”
“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. "Letter to Mr. B”
“It is with literature as with law or empire”
“Sonnet. To Science”
“And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. "Alone", l. 20”
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were”
“Years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute. To M”
“Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Al Aaraaf (1829).”
“The happiest day”
“O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! " Tamerlane ", l. 177 (1884).”
“A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride”
“Chapter XIV, lines 49”
“Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova. She is the sum of nature's universe. To her perfection all of beauty tends.”
“Chapter I, First Sonnet”
“ne le braccia avea madonna involta in un drappo dormendo. Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo lei paventosa umilmente pascea: appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo. In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient She ate that burning heart out of his hand ; Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”
“Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love .”
“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”
“Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [3]”
“Here beginneth the new life.”
“Chapter I, opening lines”
“In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria, dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica, la quale dice: Incipit vita nova. [1] In that book which is My memory ... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words ... Here begins a new life .”
“Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie .”
“Hypocrite lecteur,”
“L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
“Delacroix était passionnément amoureux de la passion, et froidement déterminé à chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la manière la plus visible. Dans ce double caractère, nous trouvons, disons”
“Hélas! tout est abîme,”
“Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition,”
“La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ... Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [4]”
“Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre. We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [3]”
“De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne,”
“Quelques mots d'introduction,”
“Oh exalted unity! Oh that which is one/for all!/Love against space and time!”
“I love César Vallejo. When I read his poems, I feel so sad. [laughter] Claribel Alegría Interview”
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies. p. 51”
“Los intelectuales son rebeldes, pero no revolucionarios. Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries. p. 18”
“Cosmo Listens to Records”
“I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist. Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston”
“Then I asked this cat,”
“a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet Liner notes , Bringing It All Back Home”
“Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous”
“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self. Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" by Niall Stokes, Hot Press”
“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee”
“Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. Liner notes , The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”
“The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I would like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead."”
“Today is always still.”
“I dreamt — marvellous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”
“My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open on far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.”
“Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.”
“Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”