"Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health."

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Ada Limon

#Grief Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.”
“We tend to get what we expect.”
“And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.”
“I always feel like I'm in the best shape of my life for every fight I'm in.”
“Know something about something. Donâ€™t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.”
“You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.”
“If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.”

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