|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. In Memory of W. B. Yeats (l. 34). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
More quotations from:
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Hurt No Living Thing (Sing-Song) (l. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press.)
More quotations from:
Christina Georgina Rossetti
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Locksley Hall, l. 105 (1842).)
More quotations from:
Alfred Tennyson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
You are the beautiful half
Of a golden hurt.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "To Be in Love.")
More quotations from:
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 6 (1871-1872).)
More quotations from:
George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
|
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Beauty," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
More quotations from:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
|
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
(José Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. repr. In The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays (1968). "In Search of Goethe from Within," Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 1949).)
More quotations from:
José Ortega Y Gasset
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
|
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
(Iris Murdoch (b. 1919), British novelist, philosopher. "The Events in Our Town," The Philosopher's Pupil (1983).)
More quotations from:
Iris Murdoch
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
|
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
(François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 65 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
More quotations from:
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, François
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
|
The intellectual damn
Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Appendix to the Anniad.")
More quotations from:
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
|
|
|
Poets
