“I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’–that wouldn’t be enough–but like a dead man.”-Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, 1923
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Category Archives: Quotes
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Robert Frost Quote
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: William Morris/Olive Schreiner
Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon by William Morris (born 24 March 1834)
“So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms, man cannot exist.”-The Story of An African Farm, Olive Schreiner (born 24 march 1855)
Spring! Spring! Spring!
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
Washington Arch, Spring by Childe Hassam, circa 1893
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William Godwin Quote
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Ellen Terry
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807)
Ellen Terry (born 27 February 1847)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Poet!
W.H. Auden–one of the poets who first made me love poetry–was born on 21 February 1907.
W.H. Auden
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”-W.H. Auden (New Year Letter)
“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”-W.H. Auden
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“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”-George Orwell
Ten Years Gone: Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller died on 10 February 2005.
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order–for meaning.”-Arthur Miller
Gertie Said…
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Gertrude Stein Quote
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