Peter Meinke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.
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If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.
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The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.
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I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.
-- Peter Meinke
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
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I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
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