Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Lyricists play with words.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.