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Quote – Boredom & Commitment

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” Dale Carnegie

Quote – Promises & Hope

“What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.” Hermann Broch

Quote – Poets & Sentiment

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.” George Sand

Quote – Possible Futures

“Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.” Richard Bach

Quote – Poem & Strength

“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.” Richard Rosen

Quote – Poetry Book Comparison

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” Don Marquis

Quote – Poetry & Cheese

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quote – Poetry & Truth

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Plato

Quote – Poet & Roses

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” Jean Cocteau

Quote – Poems and Water Drinkers

“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Horace

Quote – Invention and Poetry

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” Gustave Flaubert

Quote – Experiences and Writing

“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.” John Ashbery

Quote – Poetry & Money

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves

Quote – Literature & Butterflies

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” Vladimir Nabokov

Quote – Light of Language

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” Cicero