Poetry is the deification of reality. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: reality poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: life poetry glory praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A poem is no place for an idea. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The freedom of poetic license. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. —Charles Baudelaire More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's easier to quote poets than to read them. —Allison Barrows More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. —Adrian Mitchell More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody tries to steal your troubles, and no one can take your good deeds. —Yiddish folk saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. —Tom Clark More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As one reads history . . . one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: history crime cruelty punishment community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Questioned by the British television interviewer David Frost about his approval of a plan of action that entailed such criminal ingredients as burglary and the opening of other people's mail, Richard Nixon replied, "Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other 2 percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. —John Wayne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email