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1996 quotes about poetry
Discover inspiring poetry quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about poetry to inspire your life.
poetry Quotes
"Who is Fortunate? [10w] Who is fortunate?He who measures his fortune in friends."
"Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve."
"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."
"I am a work in progress."
"Pain vs. Pleasure {Couplet} Pain and pleasure are nearly identical,the difference lies in their temporal perception.Pleasure feels fleeting, pain feels unending;both jolt us at the nerve's first inception."
"Sometimes it's Love and Sometimes the... [10w] ...tingling sensation of excitement, happiness, and nervousnessis jock itch."
"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign."
"The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it."
"A Dream Come True [10w] A dream come true is a nightmare in the making."
"New Age Hype Don't 'honor your feelings.'Half the time they're full of shit.Don't 'embrace' anything without a pulse.Mindfulness should include not listening to quacks."
"The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world."
"Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it."
"What's in it for me?' A selfish person doesn't become compassionate as the result of some words of wisdom or epiphany. The selfish need selfish reasons to act unselfish."
"Unconditional Love [10w] If you're not giving unconditional love,you're offering conditional hate."
"My Fathers Last Words My dad was a sadist and whorehound.His last words were,'Son, I have a million dollars hidden in the."
"Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."
"I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose."
"The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented."
"There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)"