"Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca."
W.S. Merwin
"Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away."
Eileen Myles
"The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed."
Anonymous
"The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth."
Ziad K. Abdelnour
"Experience is a great teacher."
John Legend
"It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action."
A.J. Darkholme
"Better is the enemy of good."
Anonymous
"A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn."
Eli Pariser
"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... Than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... Do big things."
Herbert Butterfield
"You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead."
Shannon Barnsley
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Anonymous
"The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid."
Gever Tulley
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valéry
"Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character."
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