Escritas — Poems List

Kedar Joshi

Life is too meaningful to

Life is too meaningful to die.

25

Mary Kay Utech

It's not a problem that

It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the problem.

37

Kate Chopin

She wanted something to happen

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

27

Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

65

Mary Kay Utech

Our task is to provide

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

29

Kedar Joshi

In hell, the Devil is

In hell, the Devil is God.

27

Alice May Brock

Tomatoes and oregano make it

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

19

Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

22

Kedar Joshi

The real doubt is the

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

28

Jeff Valdez

Cats are smarter than dogs.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

30

Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasure

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

73

Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever in discussion adduces authority

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

78

Alan Valentine

For thousands of years, father

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

19

Kedar Joshi

The existence of God is

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

57

Thomas Higginson

The test of an author

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

22

Miriam Beard

Certainly, travel is more than

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

34

Peter Ustinov

To refuse awards is another

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

163

Kedar Joshi

Pain is a poison; pleasure

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

26

Mark Twain

Time cools, time clarifies; no

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

159

Louise Guiney

Quotations (such as have point

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

15

Peter Ustinov

The only reason I made

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

117

Kedar Joshi

The world exists to let

The world exists to let Man philosophize.

48

Lord Byron

With just enough of learning

With just enough of learning to misquote.

51

Henry Timrod

[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.

13