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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry, dream, children, mind

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when...

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air

Quote by John Bunyan about word, air

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Quote by André Breton about life, past, future, death, mind, faith, real estate

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are...

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Quote by John Osborne about heroism, god

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's...

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Quote by Giacomo Puccini about inspiration, man

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about action, proudness, end, egoism, things, man

The divine is not something high above us. It is in...

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

Quote by Morihei Ueshiba about god, earth

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Quote by Tom Stoppard about age, olderness

Never, until now, in old age, the thingshappenedas I wanted. Always something hadoccurredthat deviated my path. I enrolled in high school because I wanted to attend the faculty of Arts in Baia Mare, but exactly in the year when I had to sustain...

Quote by Augustin Buzura about destiny, school, tests, olderness, art, writers, age, old, being

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a...

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

JQuote by James Cameron about failure, purpose, success, contentment

I am big into astrology. My best friend in the whole wide world, Justin, got me hooked on astrology, when I was in high school. I am a Capricorn, but Im a Gemini rising and a Pisces moon.

RQuote by Reneé Rapp about astrology

A poem – in front of its own history, before projecting its promised destiny in the precise habiat of the imaginary, between reality and dream, ought to learn how to take in possession the invariant message of the high love of man.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity

There was a time when everything you said to me turned into a poem, when my heart startled so high in your presence, when I revealed myself to you and to the world of the bohemian era, as an uninterrupted column of my immortal verse, transgressing...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love

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