"Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied"

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Source : Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.102, Hachette UK

Gail Carriger

#Causes Quotes #Harm Quotes #Irreparable Quotes

“And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.”
“I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Chasing Windmills”, Flying Dolphin Press
“Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.”
“Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.”
“Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media
“The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame”
“But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.”
“Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.”

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