The Editorial Staff's Quotes


Call no man foe but never love a stranger

• Stella Benson


People happy in love have an air of intensity

• Stendhal


The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

• Stendhal


vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return

• George Eliot


There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may

• Charlotte Bronte


The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women

• George Meredith


If you don’t go out in the woods
nothing will ever happen
and your life will never begin.

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes


Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

• Salvatore Quasimodo


Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

• Plato


A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

• Paul Valery



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