Zitat des Tages über Maya Angelou:
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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.
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
God is not a dead equation!
To be social is to be forgiving.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.