I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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The possession of anything begins in the mind

Bruce Lee

Bumps are the things we climb on.

Warren Wiersbe

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Gertrude Stein

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Princess of Wales Diana

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty years of observation. It allows for predictions and states, in short, that when a female bear bears three cubs, and they aren't all male or female, it will invariably be either two males and a female, or two females and a male.

Wolfgang Klein

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Sarah Boseley