And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still...
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Bill Bryson
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
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William Shakespeare
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well.
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Robinson Jeffers
What is this thing called life? I believe That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks on the mountains have life, Only we do not call it so-- I speak of the life That oxidizes fats and proteins and...
You have perhaps heard some false reports On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten-- Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>God is a hawk gliding...
I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted...
