"The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess."

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Walter Savage Landor

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Excess Quotes

“The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.”
“Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.”
“I wish that every other guy were gay. Think about the leverage that would create in your relationship.”
“When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.”
“seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics
“I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Apr 27, 2015

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