Madison Cawein Quotes

#1. I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

John Leguizamo

#2. At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.

Madison Cawein

#3. The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

William Ellery Channing

#4. When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.

Signe Baumane

#5. Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,
Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.

Madison Cawein

#6. I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

Madison Cawein

#7. Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Madison Cawein

#8. My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?

Madison Cawein

#10. There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

Madison Cawein

#11. Some shall reap that never sowAnd some shall toil and not attain.

Madison Cawein

#12. I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.

Jim Shepard

#13. And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.

Madison Cawein

#14. I wish the fire burned my leg hair off

John O'Callaghan

#15. Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money
Come, journey the way with me.

Madison Cawein

#16. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

#17. Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Hans Kung

#18. When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
For beauty born of beauty
that remains.

Madison Cawein

#19. When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
And the brown bee drones in the rose,
And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
And summer is near its close,
It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane;
And dusk, and dew, and home again!

Madison Cawein

#20. Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

Madison Cawein

#21. This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

Madison Cawein