Great Throughts Treasury

"There are many that I miss, having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one night, years ago."

"This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community."

"Though taste, though genius be to some divine excess, faint's the cold work till thou inspire the whole; what each, what all supply, may court, may charm our eye, thou, only thou, canst raise the meeting soul!"

"To fair Fidele's grassy tomb soft maids and village hinds shall bring each opening sweet of earliest bloom, and rifle all the breathing spring."

"Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art."

"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

"When music, heavenly maid, was young, while yet in early Greece she sung, the Passions oft to hear her shell, throng'd around her magic cell."

"When words are put together in fresh ways there is a pleasure-giving quality in language, which brings a release of endorphins."

"With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul."

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

"You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful complexity introduced by two."