Poetry Quote by George Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is”

““Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'”

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”

“Remember me when I am gone away,”

“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”

“It's better to swim in the sea below”

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

“We remember though all the firelit glow”