Quotes About Odes

#1. Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege, offering bons mots and brandy between bouts of battle and composing odes to the military men. The

Tom Reiss

#2. All human odes are essentially one. "My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it." Personally

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Stop staring at my dick," he growled.
Oh, yes it was definitely an illusion. "Barrons loved me staring at his dick,"I informed it. "he would have been happy if I'd stared at his dick all day long, composing odes to its perfection.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. Moderation He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door Embittering all his state Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

Daisy Goodwin

#5. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. He'll never compose whole odes to my beauty and grace. He'll never show up with a boom box to reenact Say Anything outside my window. He'll never drive over at three a.m. because I'm sick and can't sleep and just want to feel his arms around me.

Abby McDonald

#8. A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

James Fenton

#9. My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

#10. Sometimes, even those whom we consider as our close friends may betray us so easily, in a moment when we do not even expect it. Such is the truth of life, despite so many eloquent odes humanity dedicated to friendship.

Sahara Sanders

#11. Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)

Horace

#12. We live in a disconcerting world. Trying to comprehend what we see around us, we ask ourselves: what is the universe made of? and what is our place in it? where odes the universe come from? and where do we come from?

Rafael Abalos

#13. To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

Dilys Laing

#14. If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

Sidney Sheldon

#15. Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes - I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

Grant Morrison

#17. So let there be prose.
There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph

Mahmoud Darwish

#18. The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Honore De Balzac

#19. Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Michael Moore

#20. This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire

#21. Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.
- Foaly

Eoin Colfer

#22. I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

Ice Cube

#23. A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

James A. Baldwin

#24. But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

Jack Kornfield

#25. An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.
Not by finishing, but by transforming to
infinite for infinite joy!

Debasish Mridha