Quote Quote from “A Poet's Advice (1958)” To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting E.E. Cummings
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” 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? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Newsweek (1949)” The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. - Sigmund Z. Engel
Quote Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)” Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
Poetry Quote Quote from “The Siren” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/34507 You are my siren, you drew me in With a voice like an angel and the softest skin Your eyes shine like diamonds and your smile melts my heart I know that nothing could tear us apart - YoungPoet
Poetry Quote Quote from “My Sister, My Friend” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/18345 If I had one wish, it would surely be to give you as much as you've given me. - Zhai DueƱas
Quote Quote from “Eleonora (1850)” Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Quote Quote from “Care And Happiness” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/78165 You came as a ray of light, made my life cheerful and bright, Shishir
Quote Quote from “The Works Of Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)” There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson