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Horace quote: "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."(Odes: I.11)"
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."(Odes: I.11) Horace
Neil Gaiman quote: "Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose..."
Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen? Neil Gaiman
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary. Virginia Woolf
Horace quote: "Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11)"
Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11) Horace
And how about the "Daily Odes to the Benefactor"? Who can read them without bowing his head reverently before the selfless labor of this Number of Numbers? Or the terrible blood-red beauty of the "Flowers of Judicial Verdicts"? Or the immortal tragedy, "Lat for Work"? Or the bedside book of "Stanzas on Sexual Hygiene"? Yevgeny Zamyatin
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage. Roberto Bolano
Maxim Gorky quote: "One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole..."
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole ode from a man . . Maxim Gorky
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it. Barbara Kingsolver
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo quote: "The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the..."
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo
Austin Dobson quote: "I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet."
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. Austin Dobson
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. Richard Russo

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