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    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
    tags: poetry, power-of-words
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    Dylan Thomas
    “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
    tags: art, poetry, writing
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    Pablo Neruda
    “It was at that age
    that poetry came in search of me.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: neruda, poetry
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: life, poetry
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    Morrissey
    “If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.”
    ― Morrissey
    tags: music, poetry
    142 likes

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    William Blake
    “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: poetry
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    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: philosophy
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
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    Woody Allen
    “If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: atheism, metaphysics, philosophy
    810 likes

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    Rollo May
    “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: philosophy
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    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
    tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
    987 likes

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    Tom Wolfe
    “A cult is a religion with no political power.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    “Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.”
    ― Nicholas Tharcher, Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
    tags: dissent, independent-thought, metaphysics, philosophy
    333 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: nietzsche, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78300 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32151 likes



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