"And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word."

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Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

Sidney Lanier

#Long Quotes #Waste Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.”
“I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now.”
“I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.”
“For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.”
“don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.”
“When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.”
“I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.”
“Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ***** in the chair or nothing gets done.”

Source : John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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