#your

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#creativity #doorway #effort #give #groaning

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#before #choose #doubt #got #happen

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#angst #because #depressed #easier #end

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#good #put #skin #someone #yourself

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#dropped #get #good #last #only

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#acting school #felt #first #first time #freedom

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ↗

— Dean Inge

#get #life #paying #share #up

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claim #every #give #human #human being

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claim #every #giving #human #human being

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry