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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over. — Rita Mae Brown

Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France. — John Crowe Ransom

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy. — Shane Claiborne

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet. — John Crowe Ransom

In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.

A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? — John Crowe Ransom

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful. — Michael Chorost

But we moderns are impatient and destructive. — John Crowe Ransom

To be free means always leaving ... or returning to a place where leaves never fall. — Rich Shapero

the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education. — Donald J. Trump

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. — John Crowe Ransom

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more. — John Crowe Ransom

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. — Jon English

The first and last frosts are the worst. — George Herbert

I am a lady young in beauty waiting
Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss. — John Crowe Ransom

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. — Billy Idol

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force? — Honore De Balzac

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. — John Crowe Ransom

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others. — Pierre Bourgault

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom

I really hate the news. — Katie Kacvinsky