#dl

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ↗

— James Joyce

#better #boldly #fade #full #glory

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#endless #explain #love #love is #mystery

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better. ↗

— Rip Taylor

#better #fiddler #getting #getting better #harvey

The only deadline is the one I give myself. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#give #i #myself #only

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#become #before #deadly #extremely #food

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. ↗

— Kris Kristofferson

#away #current #get #good #paddle

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #i #insidious #may #most

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days