"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."

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Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

John Drinkwater

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“Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.”

Source : John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.24, Harper Collins
“I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.”

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“Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.”

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“I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.”
“Le de s ir de la prie'Â re est de j a'Â Â une prie'Â re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.”
“Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!”
“Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.”
“When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.”

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