(12 quotes found)
“Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.”
William Rose Benet
“Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.”
“You came to climb,And you endure --So turn your face to the rock of Time,Make one more foothold sure!”
“And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know”
“Like a knight in glittering armor,LaughterStood up at his side.”
“Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.”
“So let it be, let it be,Fretting all the day!”
“You are to me what the bowstring is to the shaft,Speeding my purpose aloft and aflame and afar.”
“Only madmen seize the storyWith coals of fire upon their tongue.”
“Time, the dark whale, spouts blithely from his spiracleA jet of memory that makes glad the sun.”
