"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Graves, Robert on reputation   

"Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark."

Sa, Carl on solitude
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Dickinson, Emily on poetry and poets   

"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."

Goering, Hermann on arms race   

"If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe."

Crusher, Dr. Beverly on universe   

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Haldane, John B. S. on universe
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"When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all."

Barton, Bruce on universe
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"Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times..."

Hale, George Ellery on universe   

"The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register."

Ionesco, Eugene on universe
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"I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes -- but is that all?"

Whitman, Walt on universe   

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

Thoreau, Henry David on universe   

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"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."

Weinberg, Steven on universe   

"I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Carlyle, Thomas on universe   

"The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."

Broad, William J. on universe   

"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on fantasy
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"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on fantasy
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"The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty."

Lucientes, Francisco Jose De Goya Y on fantasy   

"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

Baudelaire, Charles on fantasy
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

Stevens, Wallace on unknown   

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."

Magritte, Rene on unknown
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"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."

Overton, Patrick on unknown
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"No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe."

Long, Lazarus on universe   

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life!"

Dickinson, Emily on doctors
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"'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!"

Dickinson, Emily on joy   

"Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat."

Dickinson, Emily on anger
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on love
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"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."

Dickinson, Emily on luck
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"

Dickinson, Emily on madness
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"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem."

Dickinson, Emily on nature   

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Dickinson, Emily on opportunity
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"His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!"

Dickinson, Emily on insects   

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."

Dickinson, Emily on editing and editors