"Some of us â€“ poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes â€“ beyond the word."

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Wole Soyinka

#Sometimes Quotes #Poet Quotes

“So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.”

Source : "Cancer Didn't Stop Stuart Scott From Delivering Heartfelt ESPYs Speech" by Laura Vitto, mashable.com. July 17, 2014.
“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”
“People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.”
“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”
“Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.”
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
“Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure...”
“Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?”

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