"The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses co..."
- Henry Adams
"Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is take..."
- Richard Adams
"They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.' Then ther..."
- Douglas Adams
"In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot."
"I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance."
- Adam Young (Owl City)
"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
- John Adams
"I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean."
- Adam Zagajewski
"Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe."
- Adam Kirsch
"Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, ..."
"In summer the empire of insects spreads."