Aleixandre Quotes

#1. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Vicente Aleixandre

#3. Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Eric Gill

#4. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.

Sherman Alexie

#5. Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.

Marija Gimbutas

#6. John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.

James May

#8. Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Vicente Aleixandre

#9. No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

Chester A. Arthur

#10. I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'

George Kotsiopoulos

#11. I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

Alli Simpson

#12. Black eyeliner. It's standard. It's all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

Marilyn Manson

#13. You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

Nigel Lawson

#14. Fear and anger
an interesting yet dangerous cocktail of emotions for a person in your potion. Aleixandre

Inger Iversen

#15. O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free ...

Henry Van Dyke

#16. Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Vicente Aleixandre

#17. The position that places you on your knees at my feet, if I so choose to command you there, the one where you realize that no matter the power you wield, I am
and will always be
stronger and in control. Time, Ella, I want time. Aleixandre

Inger Iversen