Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe. ’
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
Art to be art must soothe.
Speak your truth but soothe your words with peace
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?
You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.