Quote Quote from “Poetic Manifesto, Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)” You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. Dylan Thomas
Quote Quote from “Unsourced” When one burns ones bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan Thomas
Quote Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)” My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
Quote Quote from “Auguries Of Innocence” To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake
Quote Quote from “The Nuptials” But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
Quote Quote from “Intuitions” You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
Quote Quote from “The Plague” The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. Albert Camus
Quote Quote from “Algerian Chronicles” The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. Albert Camus
Quote Quote from “Flame And Shadow (1920)” It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale