(19 quotes found)
“Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.”
Amy Lowell
“I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.”
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
“All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.”
“You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.”
“Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
“In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.”
“Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.”
“Youth condemns; maturity condones”