"Most things don't stay the way they are very long."

-- Richard Ford

#Long Quotes #Way Quotes

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
“If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.”
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
“Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.52
“As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.”
“Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.”

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