"...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry..."

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Source : Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

Billy Collins

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“The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?”
“the great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...”

Source : Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”
“As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.”

Source : "Matt Smith Talks DOCTOR WHO, Having Dinosaurs on the Show, His Thoughts on a DOCTOR WHO Movie and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2012.
“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.”
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
“Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.”

Source : Errico Malatesta, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) (1933). “A talk between two workers”

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