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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #3
    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #4
    W.H. Auden
    “We would rather be ruined than changed
    We would rather die in our dread
    Than climb the cross of the moment
    And let our illusions die.”
    W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    W.B. Yeats
    “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #7
    W.B. Yeats
    “WINE comes in at the mouth
    And love comes in at the eye;
    That's all we shall know for truth
    Before we grow old and die.
    I lift the glass to my mouth,
    I look at you, and sigh.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #8
    W.B. Yeats
    “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

  • #9
    W.B. Yeats
    “Wine enters through the mouth,
    Love, the eyes.
    I raise the glass to my mouth,
    I look at you,
    I sigh.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #10
    W.B. Yeats
    “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #11
    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
    John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

  • #12
    John Keats
    “You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”
    John Keats

  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #15
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #16
    Cesare Pavese
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #17
    Cesare Pavese
    “Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
    Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

  • #18
    Cesare Pavese
    “The only joy in the world is to begin.”
    Cesare Pavese
    tags: joy

  • #19
    Cesare Pavese
    “There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #20
    Cesare Pavese
    “Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art

  • #28
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde



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