Escritas - Poems List

Igor Stravinsky

Too many pieces of music

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

739

Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

1,177

H. H. Munro (Saki)

He is one of those

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

630

Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

949

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you gaze long into

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

1,034

Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use

1,119

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can;

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

774

Douglas MacArthur

We are not retreating we

We are not retreating we are advancing in another direction

935

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed anyone,

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

1,303

Che Guevara

Silence is argument carried out

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

1,621

George Bernard Shaw

If you can't get rid

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

1,186

Ernest Hemingway

Write drunk; edit sober.

1,199

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

1,225

Ambrose Bierce

Egotist: a person more interested

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

1,250

Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic

1,743

Al Capone

You can get more with

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

1,441

Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

1,274

William Butler Yeats

A Meditation In Time Of

A Meditation In Time Of War

FOR one throb of the artery,
While on that old grey stone I Sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate fantasy'.

687

Sarah Teasdale

The Look Strephon kissed

The Look
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

660

Sheldon Allan Silverstein

Crowded Tub There are

Crowded Tub
There are too many kids in this tub
There are too many elbows to scrub
I just washed a behind that I'm sure wasn't mine
There are too many kids in this tub.

749

Sappho

Tonight I've watched Tonight

Tonight I've watched
Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
goes; I am
in bed alone

653

Sappho

To Evening O HESPERUS!

To Evening
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home;
All that the garish day hath scattered wide;
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold;
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side

377

Sappho

It's no use It's

It's no use
It's no use
Mother dear, I
can't finish my
weaving
You may
blame Aphrodite
soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy

386

Sappho

Blame Aphrodite It's no

Blame Aphrodite
It's no use
Mother dear, I
can't finish my
weaving
You may
blame Aphrodite
soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy
Sappho
tr. Barnard

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