#poets

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students. ↗

— Henry Blake Fuller

#educational-system #poets #education

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poets #work #writers #writing #equality

Absolute equals nothingness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #equals #literature #literature-quotes #nothingness

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#days #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #faith #literature

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#class #freaks #middle-class #poets #family

Nobility is not only in forgiveness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#freedom #poetry #poets #self-esteem #freedom

You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. I guess when I say people, I mean everyone but my Grandfather. He hated anything that was so monotonous as repetition. That’s why he loathed walking so much. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, and on and on. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #poets #repitition #songwriters #walking

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#distilled #i #i wonder #like #poets