"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."

--

Robert Penn Warren

#Poetry Quotes #Grows Quotes

“The price of being the best is having to be the best.”
“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”
“Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.”

Source : The New York Post, October 26, 1957.
“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind”
“To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.”
“The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
“Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.”
“The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.”

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