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#1

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

tags: poetry

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#2

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi

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#3

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#4

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion

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#5

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

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#6

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: ecology, environment, trees

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#7

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: adoration, love, poetry

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#8

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry

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#9

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: anonymous, poetry, woman

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#10

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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#11

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
― Malcom X

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#12

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

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#13

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

tags: environment, nature, poetry

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#14

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#15

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

tags: afflictions, on-writing, poetry

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#16

“I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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#17

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious

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#18

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#19

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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#20

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

tags: poetry

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#21

“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

tags: poetry, wisdom

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#22

“In this love you are like a knife with which I explore myself.”
― Franz Kafka

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#23

“Please — consider me a dream.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: dream

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#24

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: beauty, eternity, poetry

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#26

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

tags: love, relationships

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#27

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: silence

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#27

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#28

“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: afraid, body-dysmorphic-disorder, clothes, mirrors, ugliness

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#29

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

tags: failure, success, time

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#30

“Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.”
― Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog

tags: find, heart, pluck, today

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