#slammed

Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed. Their reply was that although they had moved beyond that--from the person or event that inspired their words at that point in time--it doesn't mean someone listening to them wasn't in that. So? So what if heartache you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. It may be exactly what the person in the front row is feeling. What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now--that's why you write poetry. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#poetry #slammed #inspirational

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#day #getting #off #paper #pick

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all. ↗

— Burl Ives

#behind #being #broken #broken glass #class

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#slammed #death

Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me And when I lose my direction, I’ll look up to the sky And when the black cloak drags upon the ground I’ll be ready to surrender, and remember Well we’re all in this together If I live the life I’m given, I won’t be scared to die. ↗

— The Avett Brothers

#once-and-future-carpenter #slammed #death

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#before #doors #face #feel #going