"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

-- Theophile Gautier

#Mean Quotes #Poet Quotes #Made Quotes

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
“Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.”
“Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.”
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”
“My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.”
“in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...”
“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.”
“Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.”

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