Robert Burns Quotes

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Words can't express what you mean to me.

When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that's when the chemistry becomes really special.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.