"it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Horse Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Clutter is the disease of American writing,”
“I have no friends, there are only people I love.”
“Most people donâ€™t really want to think independently or make decisions; theyâ€™re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where itâ€™s safest, donâ€™t stand out too much, donâ€™t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But theyâ€™re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think theyâ€™re independent and free.”
“Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.”
“We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.”
“A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.”
“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
“Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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