Escritas — Poems List

Richard Nixon

Solutions are not the answer.

38

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

41

Stanley Kunitz

What makes the engine go?

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

24

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

42

William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

94

Plato

Wise men talk because they

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

189

Nina Berberova

I had learnt to seek

I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

28

Frank Herbert

Seek freedom and become captive

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

27

François de La Rochefoucauld

We always like those who

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

78

Mark Twain

It is by the goodness

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

139

Frank Herbert

It is impossible to live

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

48

Anonymous

Confidence in nonsense is a

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

114

William Shakespeare

But love is blind and

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

152

Harry Shearer

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

111

Saul Bellow

There was a disturbance in

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

560

Frank Herbert

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

22

James Reston

This is the devilish thing

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

47

Spike Milligan

For ten years Caesar ruled

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

133

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us will ever

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

201

Frank Herbert

Absolute power is the power

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

36

W. H. Auden

In times of joy, all

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

177

Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

250

Anonymous

Blessed is the person who

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

81

Frank Herbert

Blood is thicker than water,

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

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