Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

tell all the truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a read, commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.

Joseph Brodsky

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

You can't drop a tattoo off at the thrift shop when it goes out of style.

Michael Lipsey

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

John Green

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view

Mark Twain

The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

Elvis Stojko

Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.

Shel Silverstein

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

William Bartram

The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. Proverbs 21:25

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