Ekes Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is the human soul entire
Squeezed like a lemon or a lime,
Drop by drop into atomic words". — Langston Hughes

I'm very fond of you, Maggie; I shall never forget you," said Philip, "and when I'm very unhappy, I shall always think of you, and wish I had a sister with dark eyes, just like yours. — George Eliot

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word. — A.E. Housman

Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively. — Debasish Mridha

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. — Jack Kemp

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black. — Johnny Cash

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting. — Lauren Groff