"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."

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Stephane Mallarme

#Ideas Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?”
“I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.”
“To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.”

Source : Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA
“In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.”
“Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”
“Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.”

Source : Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc
“My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.”
“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.”

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