Quotes about Things, page 41

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about things

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about things

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about things

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about things

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Quote by William Falconer about things

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about things

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Quote by William Faulkner about things

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about things

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about things

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about things

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about things

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about things

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Quote by Walt Disney about things

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Quote by Walt Disney about things

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Quote by Walt Disney about things

The future is called 'perhaps, ' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about things

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Quote by Tennessee Williams about things

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Quote by Walt Whitman about things

Thus we live, with every passing moment, our own Death! If our Life were a reflection in exactly what we are, this would mean that we mirror and we refer to ourselves, even though we refer to what we are not, coming to live in a parallel world...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about things

Why are we a shadow and not a great tree? Why when we think we are spring, reality shows us we are a late autumn? Because of the fact that God is the Unique Accidental one, is the Primary Event, and everything that follows him is an Intended...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about things