"The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den."

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Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA

James K. Baxter

#Poetry Quotes #Lions Quotes #Dens Quotes

“My future is one I must make myself.”
“Home is where you hang your hangover.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Travel is an emotional purchase”
“The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”
“One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.”
“I think at you have to do what your conscience tells you to do.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.”

Source : "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 139, 1928.

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