Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
W. H. Auden
Related I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me... W. H. AUDEN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave dange... SALLY FIELD Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ... W. H. AUDEN One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. VINCE LOMBARDI Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that... CHRISTOPHER MOORE A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is ... A.W. TOZER Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, t... IDA NORTON MUNSON Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. MUHAMMAD ALI Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years. DONALD DAVIS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA My brother, Abraham Jr., went back to the grave after Rita hit. The grave was not damaged, and (he) ... TIM VINCENT We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the e... CHARLES LINDBERGH It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the fiel... JOSE RIZAL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Men and women are what they make of themselves. SETH ADAM SMITH Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. MARGARET CAVENDISH Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit MARGARET CAVENDISH My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empt... JOSH MCDOWELL I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt really ... STEPHEN KING The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the offi... RUSSELL BAKER It's only in the last few years that we've really been looking at vernal pools. It's becoming much m... DOUG STEWART The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convinc... FRANK MURPHY There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old. J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN It is impossible to live without danger, Ashley explains. The danger is always there, the hazard of ... JUSTIN GO Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. ANGELICA HOPES The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his lif... MUHAMMAD ALI The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Sakurai's object went through the first phases of this sequence in just a few years -- 100 times fas... ALBERT ZIJLSTRA Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. MARK TWAIN Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon MARK TWAIN I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave. MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN I dont think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like t... GERARD WAY Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 ... AMIT KALANTRI On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unu... JOSH MCDOWELL The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran ag... DANA PERINO Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote ... DOROTHY HODGKIN That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different ... LOU GERSTNER We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We wanted a stone on his grave. This gives him the recognition he deserves. FRANK KELLY It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in ... ANGELINA JOLIE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a ch... ROBERT PARKER The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roa... THOMAS J. STANLEY .מסכן, אתה כמו ספר ילדים בלי תמונות EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and g... LUIS BUñUEL Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ROBERT SOUTHEY At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling p... MARCO POLO This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A thief stops stealing when he dies SOTONYE ANGA He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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AUDEN Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''s... W. H. AUDEN All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation W. H. AUDEN If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me W. H. AUDEN A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep W. H. AUDEN No hero is immortal till he dies W. H. AUDEN Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet m... W. H. AUDEN A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ... W. H. AUDEN All that we are not stares back at what we are W. H. AUDEN . . . see without looking, . . . hear without listening, . . . breathe without asking. W. H. AUDEN Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places. W. H. AUDEN Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find it... W. H. AUDEN Though I believe it sinful to be queer, it has at least saved me from becoming a pillar of the estab... W. H. AUDEN Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas. W. H. AUDEN Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye... W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience... W. H. AUDEN A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. W. H. AUDEN I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance. W. H. AUDEN Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou... W. H. AUDEN We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know W. H. AUDEN Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. AUDEN We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the... W. H. AUDEN Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say W. H. AUDEN Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of... W. H. AUDEN Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs ... W. H. AUDEN But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq... W. H. AUDEN It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfish... W. H. AUDEN Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible. W. H. AUDEN Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science W. H. AUDEN In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each seques... W. H. AUDEN Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. W. H. AUDEN When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door ... W. H. AUDEN Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. W. H. AUDEN If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful... W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will... W. H. AUDEN Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma... W. H. AUDEN For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. AUDEN