Emily Dickinson Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Emily Dickinson:

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Richard Armour

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Carolyn Kizer

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Alice Cary

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.

Eileen Myles

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Kenneth Koch

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

Countee Cullen

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

Joseph Brodsky

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Kenneth Rexroth

To be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Rita Dove

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jones Very

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Robert Morgan

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg

In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

Joseph Brodsky

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Joseph Brodsky

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

T. S. Eliot

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Susan Stewart

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Mattie Stepanek

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

May Sarton

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Edward Hirsch

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

Paul Engle

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Lucy Larcom

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Rita Dove

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Wallace Stevens

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser