"And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection."

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Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.23, McClelland & Stewart

Irving Layton

#Reflection Quotes #Water Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.”
“I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.”

Source : "From Pulitzers to Tonys, David Lindsay-Abaire Turns Blue Collar Roots Into Art". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.
“Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
“I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.”
“Create your own realitybecome your own rockstar, find your passion.. .and we will be here every step of the way with you”
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown
“Wedded love is founded on esteem.”

Source : John Banks, Elijah Fenton, Colley Cibber, Edward I Young (1777). “The Albion Queens, Or the Death of Mary Queen of Scots, a Tragedy”
“True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.”

Source : Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.56, Book and Magazine

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