W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs. 

Tags: meter   poetry   prosody     


Roman Payne  - Quotes

 I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter 

Tags: autumn   demeter   goddesses   life   mortals   payne   seasons     
Jack Handey  - Quotes

 Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are. 

Tags: clocks   confusion   humor   speed   speedometer     


Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. 

Tags: atlantis   cemetery   death   lyonesse   tombstones     
Charles Baudelaire  - Quotes

 I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. 

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Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 The older lady harrumphed.  

Tags: demeter   hades   persephone     
Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 Hades smiled coldly.  

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Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 You know what would help this boy? 

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