#ma

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#human #literature #men #must #off

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#gate #may #new #road #round

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice. ↗

— Rob Liano

#commitment #divorce #hate #inspiration #inspirational

Class still matters in Britain today. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#class #matters #still #today

Some people would say I've made it now. ↗

— David Wenham

#made #now #people #say #some

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#being #creeds #gods #just #kind

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be happy #being #expected #happy #her