No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
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Charlaine Harris
I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
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Astrid Artistikem Cruz
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
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Sylvia Plath
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
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Will Cuppy
The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as thick upon the streets as busted glass, they don't want...
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Miles Watson
More Quotes By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart, / when he himself, among the sinners, / is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
They tell me, shaking their heads:" You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.
No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
