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  • #1
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #2
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #5
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #7
    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #8
    Janet Fitch
    “Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
    Janet Fitch, White Oleander

  • #9
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
    Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #11
    John Green
    “So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.

    -- Robert Frost”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    Anna Akhmatova
    “You will hear thunder and remember me,
    And think: she wanted storms. The rim
    Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
    And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “We ran as if to meet the moon.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    Anne Sexton
    “I like you; your eyes are full of language."

    [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
    Anne Sexton

  • #15
    Anne Sexton
    “I am alone here in my own mind.
    There is no map
    and there is no road.
    It is one of a kind
    just as yours is.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #16
    Anne Sexton
    “I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
    Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

  • #17
    Anne Sexton
    “Only my books anoint me,
    and a few friends,
    those who reach into my veins.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #18
    Anne Sexton
    “Do you like me?”
    No answer.
    Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
    and sat between us
    and clogged my throat.
    It slaughtered my trust.
    It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
    We exchanged blind words,
    and I did not cry,
    I did not beg,
    but blackness filled my ears,
    blackness lunged in my heart,
    and something that had been good,
    a sort of kindly oxygen,
    turned into a gas oven.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #19
    Anne Sexton
    “Perhaps I am no one.
    True, I have a body
    and I cannot escape from it.
    I would like to fly out of my head,
    but that is out of the question.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #20
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

  • #22
    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #23
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #25
    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    “The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring.”
    Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #27
    Matthew Gregory Lewis
    “Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.”
    Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
    Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
    Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “Without literature, life is hell.”
    Charles Bukowski



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