A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.
Nothing is constant except change
Most things, except agriculture, can wait
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.
When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.
There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.
There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. . . Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.