Quotes of Robert Penn Warren

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

- Robert Penn Warren

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“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay