“Poems are difficult to silence.”— Stephen Greenblatt Related Quotes “A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.”— Joseph Story “The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.”— Vladimir Nabokov “to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”— Tony Parsons