#ty

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#books #guess #i #living #make

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#boring #established #i #know #lot

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#become #devout #humble #people #plenty

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

We'll see Heaven together. I promise with all my heart I'll never leave you alone. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#alone #christian #christianity #christians #go

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ↗

— George Ade

#life #parlor #saver #use #vague

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#before #crowds #feats #friendly #great

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #heroic #life #death