"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspiring Quotes #Writing Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.”

Source : Katharine Susan Anthony (1925). “Catherine the Great”
“Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.”
“Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.”
“Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.”

Source : mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”
“Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1897*). “Works of Captain Marryat: With Illustrations”
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.”
“I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.”
“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”

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