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  • #1
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #2
    Jon   Anderson
    “The secret of poetry is cruelty.”
    Jon Anderson

  • #3
    Amy Clampitt
    “The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. ”
    Amy Clampitt

  • #4
    A.R. Ammons
    “Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.”
    A.R. Ammons

  • #5
    Edith Wharton
    “Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #6
    Frank O'Hara
    “I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”
    Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

  • #7
    Franz Wright
    “But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?”
    Franz Wright, God's Silence

  • #8
    Franz Wright
    “The road to Emmaus is this world.”
    Franz Wright, God's Silence

  • #9
    Christine  Elizabeth Hamm
    “The modern women carry guns and are not afraid.”
    Christine Hamm

  • #10
    Wallace Stevens
    “We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
    Wallace Stevens

  • #11
    Lisa Fishman
    “When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.”
    Lisa Fishman, The Happiness Experiment

  • #12
    Lisa Fishman
    “In really nice weather I have to lie down like a complaint or a huge glass bottle in the field.”
    Lisa Fishman, The Happiness Experiment

  • #13
    Richard Brautigan
    “He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
    Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #15
    Joan Didion
    “We are not idealized wild things.
    We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.”
    Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

  • #16
    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

  • #17
    Umberto Eco
    “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #18
    John Green
    “I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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    Markus Zusak
    “That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #21
    Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
    “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
    Prevost Abbe, Manon Lescaut

  • #22
    “Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.”
    Victor Devlin

  • #23
    Sarah Ruhl
    “A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
    sarah ruhl, Eurydice

  • #24
    Amit Ray
    “There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”
    Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

  • #25
    John Wooden
    “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.”
    John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

  • #26
    Ama H. Vanniarachchy
    “A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
    Ama H.Vanniarachchy

  • #27
    Kent Marrero
    “We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars, and moreover, to discern whether their actions were sinful or just. Furthermore, we are called to decide whether to correct the errors of our fathers battles through either peace, war, or some combination of the two. We are not bonded to our fathers' fate, but rather called to build on their trespasses or triumphs for a better future.”
    Cristina Marrero

  • #28
    Andrew Vachss
    “Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.”
    Andrew Vachss, Another Chance to Get It Right

  • #29
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “May we as father’s pray that God would transform the men that we are in order to heal the wounds that we have caused. And might we kneel before this God every day so that the transformation never stops, but the wounding does.”
    Craig D. Lounsbrough

  • #30
    “There would never been an end to all the things I wished I'd asked my father. After so many years I thought less about his unwillingness to disclose and more about how stupid I'd been not to try harder.”
    Ann Patchett, The Dutch House



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