The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Proverb

But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. Oh don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Gr

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine, attributed at hi

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

John Ciardi

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Albert Einstein

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Claire Fontaine

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Gallagher

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Samuel Johnson

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett