The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble.
T.S. ELIOT The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Water lapped as she sat forward. “Don’t play games with me, Roarke.”
“Eve, it’...
J.D. ROBB Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside,...
BIBLE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN They sat cross-legged on
the floor, short of lotus, lay back
between table and couch. In t...
NATHANIEL MACKEY . . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,
My youthful desires have been burnt with the year...
HAORAN MENG I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER [Her uncle, William Kelly, sat in a driving rain outside Grace Church, waiting to hear the bells pea...
WILLIAM KELLY Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by su...
TESSA DARE She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no d...
HUBERT MARTIN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE my mother
is pure radiance.
she is the sun
i can touch
and kiss
SANOBER KHAN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS To an Isle in the Water
Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN The Chair
I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair
look like a ...
JAROD KINTZ The shortest horror story:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock o...
FREDERIC BROWN It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
BRYAN PROCTER Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
BARRY CORNWALL Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of ...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She sat down on a wooden bench that was bolted to the floor . . . in case some high school hooligan ...
KIMBERLY DERTING I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned ...
PAUL BURRELL It started in the basement, probably from the hot water heater. The building had a partial basement ...
DEAN FUDALEY It really screws up the water, ... You have a storm like Ophelia, that just sat out there and spun a...
RICK BENNETT William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In a
few hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll see
her dressed in blood, her hair...
KENDARE BLAKE She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
JO COX I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.
DANIEL BROWN Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even m...
RICK RIORDAN Sit down." He said It came out angrily. The girl turned him like she couldn't tell weather he was an...
RAINBOW ROWELL I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetle...
GARY D. SCHMIDT Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in ...
C.S. LEWIS Their time past, pulled down
cracked and flung to the fire
go up in a roar
All recog...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't ju...
C.C. HUNTER I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. KRISTIN CASHORE If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this."
She sh...
JAIME RUSH Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."
Her words silenced him, steadied him.
Antec...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.
She remembered years ago, when...
KAYLA KRANTZ She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. DAVID WONG Would it help,” he asked gently, “to have a shoulder to cry on?”
She fought to conceal h...
LISA KLEYPAS And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, an...
BIBLE Last summer, she sat out in the front yard and gave away a litter. She sat out with a little sign an...
LARRY PUGH She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumb...
TANZY SAYADI She sat at the little table, her expression like that of a child digesting failed plans.
R.J. LAWRENCE She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
AL STEWART