Gothic Poetry Quotes

#1. Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?

Clark Ashton Smith

#2. The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Emma Thompson

#3. Can you look at this brilliant wound?

Keishi Ando

#4. Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdy
common sense of a burgher-class in the making.

Hope Mirrlees

#5. Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us ... He is our most sincere and faithful
friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#6. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. She who is in slow motion,
Is glowing red with blood
Which is mine.

Keishi Ando

#8. The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.

Joseph O'Connor

#9. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Douglas Adams

#10. Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone,
Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

Clark Ashton Smith

#11. Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

Christopher Ricks

#12. If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

E.A. Bucchianeri