"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs."
George Jean Nathan
"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad."
Kate McGahan
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
Mark Twain
"You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good."
Dorianne Laux
"Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth."
Audrey Regan
"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
"Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity."
Anonymous
"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."
Pauline Kael
"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."
H.L. Mencken
"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth."
Dennis Adonis
"Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past."
Shannon L. Alder
"If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays."
Joel Kinnaman
"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."
Hamza Yusuf
"Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices."
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