"Poets find truth by writing about what they love."

-- Susan Cooper

#Writing Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Today was not about times, it was about getting in there, enjoying the race, and enjoying the atmosphere”
“Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.”
“Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.”
“One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.”
“The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.”

Source : "Song: "What They Do" ("Illadelph Halflife")". 1996.
“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.”
“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

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