"One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else."

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Billy Collins

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“I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”

Source : "Taylor Swift's Mission: Take a Stand Against Hate!" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. March 1, 2009.
“Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press
“England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.”
“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
“Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.”
“The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.”

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