Resumes Quotes - Page 10

• Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

  Robert Musil

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

  9 Copy quote

• My soul had found
  All happiness in its own cause or ground.
  Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
  Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
  Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
  And must the common round of day resume.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Sex, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source