If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown Category: Poetry
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater Category: Poetry
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand Category: Poetry
There is no torture that a woman would not endure to enhance her beauty. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Beauty
[Q]uotations, like the words of our language itself, change in relevance and currency. – Robert Irvine Fitzhenry (1918–2008), The Harper Book of Quotations Category: Quotations
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison Category: Health
