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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
T. S. Eliot
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
T. S. Eliot
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
T. S. Eliot
“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
T. S. Eliot
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
T. S. Eliot
“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
T. S. Eliot
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T. S. Eliot
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Josh Billings
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
Harry S. Truman
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
Plato
“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
J. K. Rowling
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”
Franz Kafka
“Better be alone than in bad company.”
Thomas Fuller
“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”
Robert Kennedy
“Life well spent is long.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Napoleon Hill