Top 14 Hedonist Poet Quotes
#1. To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#2. But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
Lee Tergesen
#3. There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.
John Keats
#5. To my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
George Eliot
#6. But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.
Ryu Murakami
#7. That's the joy of a harlequinade, after all, isn't it? We change our costumes. We change our roles.
Neil Gaiman
#8. It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#9. I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.
Janet Jackson
#11. I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry A. Kissinger
#12. When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.
Walter Isaacson
#13. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.
Javier Cercas