“Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822).
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. “
—Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
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One-Way Street: Dragging wet feet
Congrats! You’re the owner of a new time machine. The catch? It comes in two models, each traveling one way only: the past OR the future. Which do you choose, and why?
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Robin Williams: Poetry, beauty, romance, love
“Poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.”
~Robin Williams.
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Vijay Seshadri: Impossibility
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“The soul, like the square root of minus 1, is an impossibility that has its uses.”
~Vijay Seshadri.
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Plato: Poetry
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ”
—Plato.Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina, 1925. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Robert Frost: Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”
—Robert Frost
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Anita Diament: Writerly advice
“I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. ”
—Anita DiamentMuch Against Everyone’s Advice (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Virginia Woolf: Delicious poetry
“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ”
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
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“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.”
—Bernard Iddings Bell
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Excess wisdom
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“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love
Leo Buscaglia, Miami Book Fair International, 1987 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. ”
—Leo Buscaglia
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Petrarch: Love life
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“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
—Petrarch.
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Borrowed mirth
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone. / For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, / But has trouble enough of its own.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)
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St. Paul: Love
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“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
—Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians, 13: 4-7.
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Sting: Love
Sting at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Duncan Jones’s film Moon. Photographer’s blog post about this event. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. ”
—Sting.
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Khalil Gibran: Hate
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Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? –Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)
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Oscar Wilde: Ideas
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
—Oscar Wilde
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love
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“Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Herman Hesse: Love of God and good
“Love of God is not always the same as love of good. ”
—Herman Hesse.
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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William Butler Yeats: Rhetoric and poetry
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939).
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Robert Frost: Poetry
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. –Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
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Robert Frost: Poetry
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. –Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr: Poetic dictionary
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When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively, but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages. –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., writer and physician (1809-1894)
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Jefferson Carter: There’s no such thing as a stupid question
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A STUPID QUESTION
All the good questions have been asked.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
Are you my pork chop?
What’s a guy gotta do to get a drink around here?
I’ve been dreaming about my brother,
who lived on Crete. I dragged him out of the surf,
dead drunk, 150-pound carp, but hairier
& muttering every pariah’s secret,
“I’m a creep. I’m a creep.”
Do dreams begin responsibilities?
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, dormez vous?
A squalid rented room,
the furniture shrouded in wax paper.
Who’s to blame? A stupid question.
Brother Jon, Jon, my brother, are you sleeping?
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Diane Wakoski: Disguised words
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. –Diane Wakoski, poet (b. 1937).
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Samuel Johnson: Poetry
Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).
