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  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Roses are red,
    And ready for plucking,
    You're sixteen,
    And ready for high school.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #2
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #3
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #4
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #5
    Robert Penn Warren
    “For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”
    Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

  • #6
    W.H. Auden
    “As I walked out one evening,
    Walking down Bristol Street,
    The crowds upon the pavement
    Were fields of harvest wheat.

    And down by the brimming river
    I heard a lover sing
    Under an arch of the railway:
    "Love has no ending.

    "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street,

    "I'll love till the ocean
    Is folded and hung up to dry
    And the seven stars go squawking
    Like geese about the sky.

    "The years shall run like rabbits,
    For in my arms I hold
    The Flower of the Ages,
    And the first love of the world."

    But all the clocks in the city
    Began to whirr and chime:
    "O let not Time deceive you,
    You cannot conquer Time.

    "In the burrows of the Nightmare
    Where Justice naked is,
    Time watches from the shadow
    And coughs when you would kiss.

    "In headaches and in worry
    Vaguely life leaks away,
    And Time will have his fancy
    Tomorrow or today.

    "Into many a green valley
    Drifts the appalling snow;
    Time breaks the threaded dances
    And the diver's brilliant bow.

    "O plunge your hands in water,
    Plunge them in up to the wrist;
    Stare, stare in the basin
    And wonder what you've missed.

    "The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
    The desert sighs in the bed,
    And the crack in the teacup opens
    A lane to the land of the dead.

    "Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
    And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
    And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
    And Jill goes down on her back.

    "O look, look in the mirror,
    O look in your distress;
    Life remains a blessing
    Although you cannot bless.

    "O stand, stand at the window
    As the tears scald and start;
    You shall love your crooked neighbor
    With all your crooked heart."

    It was late, late in the evening,
    The lovers they were gone;
    The clocks had ceased their chiming,
    And the deep river ran on.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #8
    Langston Hughes
    “Folks, I'm telling you,
    birthing is hard
    and dying is mean-
    so get yourself
    a little loving
    in between.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #10
    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #11
    Muhammad Ali
    “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
    Muhammad Ali

  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #13
    Thom Gunn
    “Their relationship consisted
    In discussing if it existed.”
    Thom Gunn

  • #14
    Steven Moffat
    “Nothing’s sad till it’s over. Then everything is.”
    steven moffat

  • #15
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    François Rabelais

  • #16
    John Green
    “there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #17
    John Green
    “She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #18
    John Green
    “I love you present tense.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #19
    John Green
    “We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #20
    John Green
    “Are you currently at your house?" he asked.
    "Um, no," I said.
    "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #22
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #23
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #24
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #25
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #26
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix



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