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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. — Philip Larkin

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept. — Robert Kennedy

We're going to reinvent not just government but history. Torch the past. — David Foster Wallace

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are. — Mark Nepo

Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room. — Jimi Hendrix

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. — Eileen Myles

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem. — Juan Felipe Herrera

People don't read as much anymore. That's why they're so stupid. — Isabella Fontaine

Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. — Mercedes Lackey

Authenticity is key. — Tim Kaine

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Every poem can be considered in two ways
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C.S. Lewis

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch

How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently — Susan Coolidge

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is. — Theodore Roethke

My poem is called 'The Grand Inquisitor' - an absurd thing, but I want you to hear it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy

A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You've got nothing,
I've got nothing,
And it's not a good thing. — Arzum Uzun

Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that. — Benjamin Orr

As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold. — Vayalar Ravi

... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world. — Clive James

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different. — Octavio Paz

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. — Jonathan Galassi

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? — B.F. Skinner

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren

The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter. — Charles Bukowski

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson

The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they are. — Cormac McCarthy

To have been where you have been
And to still have joy,
Dazzling in your heart,
Now there's a thing to make the whole world smile. — Scott Hastie

there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.

...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix. — Danabelle Gutierrez

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem. — Beck

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. — Jennifer Crusie

I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer. — Gena Showalter