"An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality." -- Tom Stoppard #TomStoppard #Stoppard #books #poems #literature #immortality #magic #artist #England

"A great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place." -- C. S. Lewis #CSLewis #romance #flowers #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #England #Waterhouse #SouloftheRose

"Most of what happens, happens beyond words." -- Dana Gioia #DanaGioia #poems #books #literature #ItzchakTarkay #Tarkay #painting #love #life #death #words

"We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall." -- Robert Graves #RobertGraves #betrayal #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Bouguereau

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." -- William Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare #time #love #life #death #England #books #poems #literature #RichardtheSecond #Donghi

"The man who follows nature and not vain opinions is independent in all things." -- Epicurus #Epicurus #nature #opinions #independence #love #life #death #Greece #Classics #books #poems #literature #GrandmaMoses

"A creative life is an energetic life." -- José Ortega y Gasset #JoséOrtegayGasset #creativity #life #love #death #books #poems #literature #Spain #energy #Annenkov

"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #HenriMartin #Donne #love #time #life #death #England #books #poems #literature

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." -- Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Thoreau #walking #morning #blessing #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Americana

"I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay #EdnaStVincentMillay #Millay #poems #books #literature #love #life #death #scorn #pity #memory

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.'" -- Hillaire Belloc #HillaireBelloc #Belloc #dead #speech #love #life #death #books #poems #literature

"Then falter not O book, fulfill your destiny." -- Walt Whitman #WaltWhitman #books #poems #literature #destiny #Americana #life #love #death

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #Donne #Ecstasy #mystery #soul #body #love #life #death #England #books #poems #Literature #Penelope #DavidLigare

"I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life." -- Harold Pinter #HaroldPinter #Pinter #England #love #life #death #drama #poems #literature #books #drama #JustinMortimer #painting

"My heart locks at the knees when it should fall." -- Jean Clower #JeanClower #poems #1950s #Americana #books #literature #life #death #love #hearts #EthelFranklinBetts

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson #Tennyson #knowledge #wisdom #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Caravaggio

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." -- Charlotte Brontë #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #JaneEyre #England #love #life #death #books #poems #novels #literature #birds #Robin #PaschalisDougalis

"The study of beauty is a duel where the artist cries out in terror before being conquered." -- Charles Baudelaire #Baudelaire #CharlesBaudelaire #beauty #artist #books #poems #Spleen #literature #Caillebotte #painting #France

"Our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art." -- Jorge Luis Borges #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #art #love #life #death #artist #Argentina #books #poems #literature

“The joke is completely lost when the jokester himself laughs." -- Friedrich Schiller #FriedrichSchiller #Schiller #joke #joker #jokester #love #life #death #Germany #deLaTour #painting

"In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded." -- Thomas Carlyle #ThomasCarlyle #Carlyle #writer #amwriting #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #GabriëlMetsu #Scotland

"There is no such thing as an age for love." -- Paul Bourget #PaulBourget #Bourget #love #life #death #age #books #poems #literature #France #EmilNolde #painting

"There's no tonic like an old friend." -- Stephen King #StephenKing #friendship #friends #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #tonic #Szapocznikow

"The way to be happy is to make others so." -- Robert G. Ingersoll #RobertIngersoll #Ingersoll #love #life #death #happiness #happy #books #poems #literature #GeorgesSeurat #painting #chahut

"When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep." -- Agatha Christie #AgathaChristie #Agatha #love #life #death #sheep #painting #KonstantinosParthenis #Parthenis #England #Greece #mystery

"Come live with me, and be my love." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #love #life #death #sonnets #England #books #poems #literature #KeesVanDongen #painting

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of of sincere friendship." -- Francis Bacon #IgorKravtsov #Kravtsov #painting #FrancisBacon #solitude #destitution #friendship #love #life #death #England #books #literature #poems

"I must write on until I am." -- Jane Austen #JaneAusten #writing #England #amwriting #books #poems #literature #life #love #death

"Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite." -- François-René de Chateaubriand #Chateaubriand #perfection #books #poems #literature #life #love #death #taste #genius #happiness #France #JohnWilliamGodward

"Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world." -- Sarah Orne Jewett #SarahOrneJewett #Jewett #life #love #death #amwriting #books #literature #poems #Americana #MoïseKisling

"When you loved me and I loved you Then both of us were born anew." -- William Cartwright #WilliamCartwright #love #life #death #poems #books #literature #England #JoanBrown #kiss

"Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?" -- Jonathan Swift #JonathanSwift #Swift #woods #owl #fear #Ireland #satire #love #life #laughter #Books #poems #literature #VincentVanGogh #VanGogh

"A man never shows his own character any more clearly as in his manner of portraying another's." -- Jean Paul #JeanPaul #character #manner #portrait #clear #books #literature #poems #Germany #Deutschland #life #love #death #IlyaMashkov

"To no one can I recommend using a false name when traveling." -- Adolph Knigge #Knigge #RaoulDufy #painting #Germany #France #travel #names #life #love #death #lies #books #poems #Literature

"Sherlock Holmes after all is mostly an attitude and a few dozen lines of unforgettable dialogue." -- Raymond Chandler #RaymondChandler #ConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #murder #fiction #life #love #death #attitude #unforgettable #mystery #detective

"Let darkness keep her raven gloss: Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss." -- Lord Tennyson #Tennyson #LordTennyson #InMemoriamAHH #England #loss #poems #life #love #death #literature #books #sweeter #darkness

"Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers." -- Ray Bradbury #RayBradbury #Bradbury #mysteries #answers #love #life #death #Americana #books #poems #literature

"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume." -- William Cowper #WilliamCowper #Cowper #liberty #flower #life #luster #perfume #death #love #books #poems #literature #MaxPechstein #sunrise #painting

"That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name." -- Algernon Swinburne #AlgernonSwinburne #Swinburne #kisses #blame #love #name #forgotten #poems #literature #books #England #LilithGurekhyan

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts." -- Brian Aldiss #BrianAldiss #Aldiss #sciencefiction #ghosts #ghoststories #literature #fiction #poems #books #life #love #death #amwritingscifi

"Death is a friend of ours." -- Francis Bacon #FrancisBacon #death #friendship #love #life #fate #England #poems #books #literature #HugoSimberg

"I think I am able to turn anything into poetry." -- Søren Kierkegaard #SørenKierkegaard #Kierkegaard #Danmark #Denmark #poetry #poems #books #literature #philosophy

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?" -- William Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare #love #world #life #death #strange #books #poems #literature #MuchAdoAboutNothing #ErnstFuchs

"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #Fools #love #life #death #England #poems #books #literature #eternity #CatrinWalzStein

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read." -- Samuel Johnson #SamuelJohnson #LifeOfJohnson #life #love #death #amwriting #reading #books #poems #literature #England #conversation

"I want death to find me planting my cabbages." -- Michel de Montaigne #MicheldeMontaigne #Montaigne #France #death #life #cabbages #love #books #poems #literature

"Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer." -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg #Lichtenberg #wit #lies #writers #amwriting #books #poems #literature #life #love #death #SashaBom

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter." -- Nikola Tesla #NikolaTesla #Tesla #virtue #failing #force #matter #love #life #death #books #literature #poems #science

"Mankind's truest madness is revealed to him in dreams." -- Richard Wagner #RichardWagner #Wagner #madness #poetry #poems #dreams #truth #love #life #opera #death #jacekmalczewski #malczewski

"A poem does invite, it does require." -- Muriel Rukeyser #MurielRukeyser #Rukeyser #poetry #poems #books #literature #invitation #requirement #love #life #death