#poets

Absolute equals nothingness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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

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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

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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

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

— Tom Verlaine

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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#love

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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