That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.

William Shakespeare

To a poet nothing can be useless

Samuel Johnson

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

David Krumholtz

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Source Unknown

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Harriet Evans

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Eduard Hanslick

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Janos Arany

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater