Author Quotes

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.

George M. Cohan

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

Henry David Thoreau

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Isaac Rosenberg

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

François Mauriac

She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.