"Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?"

-- George Crabbe

#Poetry Quotes #Myrtle Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.”
“You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you donâ€™t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you donâ€™t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.”
“Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.”
“We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.”
“I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.”
“I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.”
“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”

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