"Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand."

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Source : John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

John Gould Fletcher

#Life Quotes #Stars Quotes #Wall Quotes

“We get to make a living; we give to make a life.”
“A close-up on screen can say all a song can.”
“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
“I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.”
“Bad men are full of repentance.”
“Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".”
“I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.”
“I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.”

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