The Editorial Staff's Quotes


A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival

• Al Purdy


I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand

• David Antin


Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox


My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad

• Olive Schreiner


The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed

• Edwin Whipple


Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

• Victor Hugo


For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been

• John Greenleaf Whittier


People love the beads. Everyone really loves to catch them

• Jerry Maher


The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love

• Theodor Reik



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