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And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe he made a couple of off-color remarks about law-enforcement professionals, and maybe he’s been hiding from the cops ever since an incident a few years back involving a bleeding hooker, nine pounds of cocaine, and a soiled image of Tipper Gore.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
And it started out fun. We were chattering enthusiastically, flipping between CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. But as the evening wore on, and the numbers rolled in, it got quieter, and I found myself becoming intensely depressed. Why was I putting myself through this? The issues I’ve devoted my life to have become so marginalized by the coverage that they have no possible relevance to me. I can’t even blame the media — people simply don’t care about alternate-party politics. And why should they? I’m so far in the minority that my activism is a joke, a punchline that stopped being funny years ago. It goes beyond rooting for the underdog. It’s not rooting for the Giants: it’s more like, say, rooting for the Twins. But during the Super Bowl.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled 'Women of Liberty.' All of the speakers were women, and all of the topics boiled down to 'Effectively Communicating Libertarian Ideas to Women' — in other words, 'How to talk to girls.' Looking around at the nearly entirely white male audience, it wasn’t hard to see why they chose this tack.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.
— Abdumalik Nysanbayev
While some people are enraged over opposing facts as an attack on their belief system and integrity, I take them as an ADDITION to mine!12/13/14
— Lance L. Denney
Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.
— Rauf Aly
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
— Thomas Sowell
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
— Benito Mussolini
A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.
— David Corralez
[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.
— Noah Webster
A leader does not stand still and reject all paths forward.
— James W. Mercer
If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.
— Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios
Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree.
— James W. Mercer, The Tsunami That Reshaped America
Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.
— Michelle Malkin
Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs
— rassool jibraeel snyman
No really I'm pretty sure voting mattered a scant 15 years ago but now it's just a way to see how many old people live in your neighborhood.
— Lindsey Harris
Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.Tea Party Teddy
— Dianne Harman
Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.
— Sapphire Belucci
A free state is a corporate state.
— Marie Lu
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease
—  they always put a foot in their mouths
Rights holders, seeing how unpopular their ideas were, headed down a darker path; rather than give up on government help for such schemes, they worked to get them through with limited public debate. New Zealand’s revised law, which began with the presumption that the accused were in fact infringers, was pushed through in 2011 under "urgency" rules in the wake of the major Christchurch earthquake. In the United Kingdom, the Digital Economy Act laid the groundwork for a similar scheme and had to be passed during a hurried "wash-up" session with little discussion just before new elections in 2010.
— Nate Anderson, The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed
In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.
— Mondo Frazier, The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama
The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
— Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!
— Adolf Hitler
The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one
— Will Mcavoy
There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from the beginning. I mean by the political no more than the way we organize our social life together, and the power-relations which this involves; and what I have tried to show throughout this book is that the history of modern literary theory is part of the political and ideological history of our epoch. From Percy Bysshe Shelley to Norman N. Holland, literary theory has been indissociably bound up with political beliefs and ideological values. Indeed literary theory is less an object of intellectual enquiry in its own right than a particular perspective in which to view the history of our times. Nor should this be in the least cause for surprise. For any body of theory concerned with human meaning, value, language, feeling and experience will inevitably engage with broader, deeper beliefs about the nature of human individuals and societies, problems of power and sexuality, interpretations of past history, versions of the present and hopes for the future. It is not a matter of regretting that this is so — of blaming literary theory for being caught up with such questions, as opposed to some 'pure' literary theory which might be absolved from them. Such 'pure' literary theory is an academic myth: some of the theories we have examined in this book are nowhere more clearly ideological than in their attempts to ignore history and politics altogether. Literary theories are not to be upbraided for being political, but for being on the whole covertly or unconsciously so — for the blindness with which they offer as a supposedly 'technical', 'self-evident', 'scientific' or 'universal' truth doctrines which with a little reflection can be seen to relate to and reinforce the particular interests of particular groups of people at particular times.
— Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
Am not a politician to worry about my post,Am not a employee to worry about my designation,Am not a businessman to worry about market,Am a common man
— Bharath Mamidoju
Brains were no good to a working man
—  they only made him discontented and saucy and lose his jobs. She'd seen it happen again and again.
Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!
— Joseph P. Sekula
A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.
— Dick Gregory
The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.
— T. Rafael Cimino, Split... Civility For A Divided Nation
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
— Johnnie Dent Jr., The Promise of Being Black:  The Conversation We Need to Have
Education is political.
— Noel Castree, Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates
The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses of what the voters wanted. They were afire with faith in what people ought to want and in the end they persuaded their lethargic compatriots to give them enough support to warrant a change.
— Geoffrey Vickers
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
— Charles de Gaulle
Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda
This communist talk is so confusing
— Jay-Z
The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.
— Gavin Newsom, Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.
— Karen Elliott House, On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.
— Vikram Roy
You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters...
— T. Rafael Cimino, Table 21
It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.
— Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!
— Golda Meir
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
— Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
— Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
This Obamacare thing really scares me. The United States government / politicians are trying to turn the American people into a brand X “One size fits all” country. The past ten years has been very grim for Americans. Our current state is very grim. Our future is even more grim than ever. I used to tell people that it will get worse before it gets better. Now, I just say it will get worse.
— Carroll Bryant
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that case my friend Hubl would have pointe out to me, no one loves us more than the police. That's true. Just as every height has its symmetrical depth, so love's interest has ts negative the police's curiosity. We sometimes confuse depth with height, and I can easily imagine lonely people hoping to be taken to the police station from time to time for an interrogation that will enable to talk about themselves.)
— Milan Kundera
Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.
— Russ Lippitt
Voting is proof that gullibility has been certified as a public virtue.
— ABifarelli
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree
— W.S. Merwin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
— Dudley Moore
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
— Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
— Sylvia Plath
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
— Kay Ryan
Children picking up our bonesWill never know that these were onceAs quick as foxes on the hill
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.
— Samuel Beckett
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
— William Stafford
A change of style is a change of meaning.
— Wallace Stevens
I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen.
— Pablo Neruda, Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
— William Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
— H.L. Mencken
Between roars the lion purrs.
— William Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
All good poems are victories over something.
— Stephen Dunn
From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.
— Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.
— Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because all that one does in America is considered a "job"—with no clear sense as to what is required or where one will ultimately be led. In that respect, it is as particular an instance of a "calling" as one might point to. For years I've kept in mind, "Many are called but few are chosen." Even so "called," there were no assurances that one would be answered.
— Robert Creeley
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
— Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?
— Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.
— Gustave Flaubert, November
We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.
— Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
— Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI’m a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneI’ll write up a scene on a counter- confessions and sins in the main, boysconfessions and sins in the mainThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging dayThey come rattling over the cobblesthey sit on their coffins of blackSome are struck dumb, some gabbletop-heavy on brandy or sackThe pews are all full of fine fellowsand the hawker has set up her shopAs they’re turning them off at the gallowsshe’ll be selling right under the drop, boysselling right under the dropThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day
— Mark Knopfler, Kill to Get Crimson
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
— Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
Poets make the best topographers.
— W.G. Hoskins, The Making Of The English Landscape
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
— A.E. Stallings
Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.
— William Stafford
The bats inebriate the sky . . .
— A.E. Stallings
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
— Stephen Spender
A single wire hanger on a nail by itselfIsn't bad though a stack of them on a floorIs too gloomy for words.
— Dara Weir
. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.
— Tony Crunk, New Covenant Bound
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
— Marty Rubin
I want to tell you why poetry is worth thinking about - from time to time. Not all the time. Sometimes it's a much better idea to think about other things.Most of us have a short period of intense thinking about poetry, when we take a class in college, and then that's about it. And that's really all you need. One intense time, when you master your little heap of names - Andrew Marvel, Muriel Rukeyser, Christina Rosetti, Hardy, Auden, Bishop, Marvin Bell, Ted Hughes, John Hollander, Nicholas Christopher, Deborah Garrison, whoever, James Wright, Selima Hill, Troy Jollimore. Whoever they may be. Every so often you remember them. If you've memorised some poems, the poems will raise a glimmering finger in your memory once in a while, and that's very nice, as long as you keep it to yourself. Never recite. Please! If you recite, your listeners will look down and play with their cuticles. They will not like you. But sometimes if you quote just a phrase in passing, that can work. Like this: "As Selima Hill says: 'A really good fuck makes me feel like custard.
— Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A versifier arranges sounds
—  a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.
Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
All we’re trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.
— Eamon Grennan
He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who like poetry.But I'm not dead inside either.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
— William Carlos Williams
A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
— Marty Rubin
Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men of intellect. You take your being from your mothers. You live to the full: it is given you to love with your whole strength, to know and taste the whole of life. We thinkers, though often we seem to rule you, cannot live with half your joy and full reality. Ours is a thin and arid life, but the fullness of being is yours; yours the sap of the fruit, the garden of lovers, the joyous pleasaunces of beauty. Your home is the earth, ours the idea of it. Your danger is to be drowned in the world of sense, ours to gasp for breath in airless space. You are a poet, I a thinker. You sleep on your mother's breast, I watch in the wilderness. On me there shines the sun; on you the moon with all the stars. Your dreams are all of girls, mine of boys—
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.
— Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope...""Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves.""No, sir.""There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't.""Very true, sir.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
As to whether a poem has been written by a great poet or not, this is important only to historians of literature. Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that I have written a beautiful line; let us take this as a working hypothesis. Once I have written it, that linedoes me no good, because, as I’ve already said, that line came to me from the Holy Ghost, from the subliminal self, or perhaps from some other writer. I often find I am merely quoting something I read some time ago, and then that becomes a rediscovering. Perhaps it is better that a poet should be nameless.
— Jorge Luis Borges
That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.
— Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.
— Steven Chopade
The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.
— Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems
On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Did you know that Bharatiyar used the pen name “Shelley-dasan”? He admired the poems of Shelley so deeply that he wrote under the name “Shelley’s servant”. Wasn’t that a wonderful gesture of humility by someonewho was such a great poet himself? And later, Bharatiyar had his own dasan, the poet Subburathinam, who tookthe pen name Bharathidasan. Subburathinam’s poetry inspired yet another poet who wrote as Surada, short for Subburathina-dasan. And to think this long chain of inspiration spans centuries, going back to the poets who inspired Wordsworth, who inspired Shelley, who inspired our own Bharati.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
For the way of the comets is the poet's way.
— Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.
— Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works
Novelists invent characters
—  poets invent themselves.
The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.
— J.B.Alves
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
— Carl William Brown, L'Italia in breve.
There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
God has his poets
—  they let him dream.
There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
— Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
— John Berger
Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their kind, or they fear they shall be only taken for common-place characters. They forget that poetry is the language which speaks to all hearts—and that instead of cherishing the sacred fire as a lonely light, as one that burns in a charnel house, they should bring it forth in its beauty and brightness as a guide to the pleasant places and sparkling waters of earth’s happiness and the radiant messenger of heaven’s exalted hopes. And they should rejoice and be glad that to them the kindling of such high imagination is given. ~ Sarah Josepha Hale Ladies Magazine, November 1830From the Introduction to Cherishing the Sacred Fire
— Deborah L. Halliday, Cherishing the Sacred Fire: The Poetry of Sarah Josepha Hale's Ladies' Magazine 1828-1836
You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet." Rey smiled. "Can I be both?" "But you'd rather be a poet.""Who wouldn't?" he said.
— Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio
Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
— E. Millicent Sowerby, Rare People and Rare Books
Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.
— Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
— Robert Graves
Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon And Sixpence
Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.
— Steve Yarbrough, Safe from the Neighbors
What was it Like?""What was what like?" he said, although he knew."Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light." "It was like being fucked in the brain.
— Max Barry, Lexicon
What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.
— Harley King
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
— Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are.
— Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion
The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: "Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Poets sing our human music for us.
— Carol Ann Duffy
He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.
— Edward John Trelawny, Adventures of a Younger Son
Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top.
— Robert Graves
I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.
— Evelyn Waugh
...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.
— Diana Gabaldon
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I want to be your personal penguin.Please?
— Sandra Boynton, Your Personal Penguin
And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids
— Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4
You have the power to make your dreams come true so reach for them and don't accept anything less.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, Tails of Sweetbrier
Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.
— Lin Pardey, Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife
My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?""I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things.
— Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, Tails of Sweetbrier
My friends never seem to yell at their kids. Even when their kids are behaving hideously, they pull them aside and say, now sweetie, you know you shouldn't, blah, blah, blah. Please don't yadda, yadda, okay sweetie? Maybe it's some bullshit show they put on for non-family members, but I'd have to be on happy pills to act like that
— Brenda Wilhelmson, Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife
The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.
— Jessica Valenti, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
Darling Daddy,Poor Saffy. She had a big fight in the boys toilets on Monday, did you know? A very big fight and Sarah helped and it was terrifying. Said a boy in my class who has a brother who was there.Saffy washed her hands and said Never Ever Never Dare You Touch My Brother. (Indigo). And the plug holes were blocked with hair.Love from Rose.-Sarah's mother has given us soup. Soup soup soup and then it was all gone.L.F.R.
— Hilary McKay, Indigo's Star
She really is a shining star. Imagine how far she's come since she was on the farm in Ohio. She's our Cinderella horse.I can't wait to start riding again.Will my leg work as well as it did before the surgery. What if it doesn't work at all?
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, Tails of Sweetbrier
The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, "I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?""Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede."To make a sale," she added."And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--""Till he needs braille!""Will you guys desist?" Dad asked.
— Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
He turned the entire living room into an airport, complete with a four-foot-high LEGO traffic control tower and a fleet of paper planes, plastic army pilots taped safely into their cockpits. From deep beneath the couch, a large utility flashlight illuminates some sort of...landing strip? I crouch down for a better look.Oh. My. God.Stuck to the carpet in parallel, unbroken paths from one wall to the other are two lanes of brand-new maxi pads. Plastic dinosaurs stand guard at every fourth pad–triceratops and T rexes on one side, brontosauruses and pterodactyls on the other–protecting the airport from enemy aircraft and/or heavy flow.
— Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet
Charlene says:I hope I can be a star. I want to be able to set goals so I know where I'm going. It feels like I've been sort of floating around without being sure where I'd end up because I haven't figured out what I'd really like to do.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.
— Stephen King
Do you like kids?Only with barbecue sauce.
— Eileen Cook, Unraveling Isobel
There are all sorts of families," Tom's grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson family, as Micheal and Sarah and Derek-from-the-camp had done before him.He immediately discovered that being a member of the family was very different from being a welcome friend. If you were a Casson family member, for example, and Eve drifted in from the shed asking, "Food? Any ideas? Or shall we not bother?" then you either joined in the search of the kitchen cupboards or counted the money in the housekeeping jam jar and calculated how many pizzas you could afford. Also, if you were a family member you took care of Rose, helped with homework (Saffron and Sarah were very strict about homework), unloaded the washing machine, learned to fold up Sarah's wheelchair, hunted for car keys, and kept up the hopeful theory that in the event of a crisis Bill Casson would disengage himself from his artistic life in London and rush home to help.
— Hilary McKay, Indigo's Star
Charlene says:I heard I'm being moved to Jumping for Joy farm. That sounds like a happy place to be. I'll learn a lot about jumping. Maybe it's different than jumping up and down like I do when I'm having a tantrum.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
Excerpt:Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:“I’ll bet that’s why Mama put the word “Star” in myname. I have a feeling I’m going to be a star as a jumper.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, Charlene the Star
Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.
— Kristin Hannah, Home Front
Charlene's thoughts:I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair.
— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Here's to the kids who are different,The kids who don't always get A's,The kids who have ears twice the size of their peers,And noses that go on for days...Here's to the kids who are different,The kids they call crazy or dumb,The kids who don't fit, with the guts and the grit,Who dance to a different drum...Here's to the kids who are different,The kids with the mischievous streak,For when they have grown, as history's shown,It's their difference that makes them unique!
— Digby Wolfe
Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
The quickest way to change a child's behavior and attitude is to get him involved in fixing his mistake. The best way to inspire a child to do better in the future is to give him an opportunity to do better in the present. A punishment makes him feel bad about himself. Making amends helps him feel good about himself, and helps him to see himself as a person who can do good.
— Joanna Faber, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.
— Joanna Faber, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he couldn’t get a good long shot on the exterior because someone had set up a fake graveyard right in the plaza.“Kids just playing around, I guess, but it’s morbid; we’ll have to get rid of it, maybe bring in some sod to—”“No,” Albert said.“We’re almost ready for you,” the director assured him.“That’s not a fake graveyard. Those aren’t fake graves. No one was playing around.”“You’re saying those . . . those are actually . . .”“What do you think happened here?” Albert asked in a soft voice. “What do you think this was?” Absurdly, embarrassingly, he had started to cry. “Those are kids buried there. Some of them were torn apart, you know. By coyotes. By . . . by bad people. Shot. Crushed. Like that. Some of those kids in the ground there couldn’t take it, the hunger and the fear . . . some of those kids out there had to be cut down from the ropes they used to hang themselves. Early on, when we still had any animals? I had a crew go out and hunt down cats. Cats and dogs and rats. Kill them. Other kids to skin them . . . cook them up.”There were a dozen crew people in the McDonald’s. None spoke or moved.Albert brushed away tears and sighed. “Yeah. So don’t mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we’re good to go.
— Michael  Grant, Light
She got fired?" Confusion laced Gavin's voice. "When?""This morning," Dante muttered."Why?" Gavin asked. "What did she do?""Me," Dante said."Oh." A moment of silence passed before Gavin broke out into laughter. "Ah man, really? She lost her job for fucking around with you?""I don't see why that's so funny.""Because," Gavin said, "you're the worst consolation prize ever."Dante shot right back up, and Matty barely had enough time to move out of the way before the bottle of water hurled by him, hitting Gavin in the chest.
— J.M. Darhower, Sweetest Sorrow
These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they’re actually expected to worry about everyone’s every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.
— Bijou Hunter, Junkyard Dog
Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set.
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
But not all kids are exactly the same,Even when they share the same name.
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
Some kids are both or neitherAnd don't want to have to choose, either.
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel.
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
More than two dozen kids lined a low railing around the gazebo. They were all tied to it by a rope leash that gave them no more than a few feet of movement. Neck to rail, like tethered horses. Each of the kids was weighed down by a concrete block that encased their hands. Their eyes were hollow, their cheeks caved in.Astrid used a word that Sam had never imagined coming from her.“Nice language,” Drake said with a smirk. “And in front of the Pe-tard, too.”A cafeteria tray had been placed in front of each of the prisoners. It must have been a very recent delivery because some were still licking their trays, hunched over, faces down, tongues out, licking like dogs.“It’s the circle of freaks,” Drake said proudly, waving a hand like a showman.In a crusty old wheelbarrow to one side, three kids were using a short-handled shovel to mix cement. It made a heavy sloshing sound. They dumped a shovelful of gravel into the mix and stirred it like lumpy gravy.“Oh, no,” Lana said, backing away, but one of the Coates kids smashed her behind the knee with his baseball bat, and she crumpled.“Gotta do something with unhelpful freaks,” Drake said. “Can’t have you people running around loose.” He must have seen Sam start to react because he stuck his gun against Astrid’s head. “Your call, Sam. You so much as flinch and we’ll get to see what a genius brain really looks like.”“Hey, I got no powers, man,” Quinn said.“This is sick, Drake. Like you’re sick,” Astrid said. “I can’t even reason with you because you’re just too damaged, too hopelessly messed up.”“Shut up.
— Michael Grant, Gone
-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.
— Kevin Focke
Never forget the child inside
— Ashton Irwin
Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Our car would've burned up too, but Michael, who is only twelve, got in it and backed it away. I climbed in with him and noticed some of my school books in the car, so I took them out and threw them in the fire. I figured it would save me from doing a lot of homework, but unfortunately under the headline in the paper the next day that said HARPER'S MALT SHOP BURNS TO THE GROUND IN TRAGIC FIRE it also said that seen throwing her school books into the fire was little Daisy Fay Harper. Rat's foot! No wonder Hollywood stars hate reporters, and after all that some busybody do-gooder has already bought me a new set of books.
— Fannie Flagg
Oooh...Aunt Chelsea called Jake the D-word!"Rory's voice carries into the kitchen. "Dipshit?""No.""Dumbass?""No.""Douchebag?""What's a douchebag?""Rory!" Chelsea and I yell at exactly the same time.
— Emma Chase, Sustained
But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.
— Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
When you get in a snit, don't hit
— David Ezra Stein
Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach.
— Ron Baratono