With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Robin S. Sharma

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

Edward Grey

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Oswald Chambers

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Les Brown

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

Cassandra Clare

Ultimately amorality is immorality.

Roger M. Keesing

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Philip Pullman

Sports are not for everyone.

Dante Hall