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“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind are was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am is.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
― William C. Faulkner

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
― Robert Frost

“I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.”
― Robert Frost, Birches

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
― Robert Frost

“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
― Robert Frost

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”
― Robert Frost

“Senin bir havan var beni asıl saran o
Onunla daha bir değere biniyor soluk almak
Sabahları acıktığı için haklı
Gününü kazanıp kurtardı diye güzel
Birçok çiçek adları gibi güzel
En tanınmış kırmızılarla açan
Bütün kara parçalarında
Afrika dahil”
― Cemal Süreya, Sevda Sözleri

“Şimdi sen kalkıp gidiyorsun. Git
Gözlerin durur mu onlar da gidiyorlar. Gitsinler.
Oysa ben senin gözlerinsiz edemem bilirsin
Oysa Allah bilir bugün iyi uyanmıştık
Sevgideydi ilk açılışı gözlerimizin sırf onaydı
Bir kuş konmuş parmaklarıma uzun uzun ötmüştü
Bir sevişmek gelmiş bir daha gitmemişti
Yoktu dünlerde evelsi günlerdeki yoksulluğumuz
Sanki hiç olmamıştı”
― Cemal Süreya, Sevda Sözleri

“Bak bunlar ellerin senin bunlar ayakların
Bunlar o kadar güzel ki artık o kadar olur
Bunlar da saçların işte akşamdan çözülü
Bak bu sensin çocuğum enine boyuna
Bu da yatak olduğuna göre altımızdaki
Sabahlara kadar koynumda yatmışsın
Bak bende yalan yok vallahi billahi
Sen o kadar güzelsin ki artık o kadar olur”
― Cemal Süreya, Sevda Sözleri

“Sanma ki derdim güneşten ötürü;
Ne çıkar bahar geldiyse?
Bademler çiçek açtıysa?
Ucunda ölüm yok ya.
Hoş, olsa da korkacak mıyım zaten
Güneşle gelecek ölümden
Ben ki her nisan bir yaş daha genç,
Her bahar biraz daha aşığım;
Korkar mıyım?
Ah, dostum, derdim başka...”
― Orhan Veli Kanık

“Bakakalırım giden geminin ardından;
Atamam kendimi denize, dünya güzel;
Serde erkeklik var, ağlayamam.”
― Orhan Veli Kanık, Bütün Şiirleri

“Dünyada bir tek insana inanmıştım. O kadar çok inanmıştım ki, bunda aldanmış olmak bende artık inanmak kuvveti bırakmamıştı.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna

“İçinizde mevcut olan sevgi,alaka,sarih olarak bilinmeyen bazı vesilelerle,zamanı tayin edilemeyecek olan bir anda,birdenbire birikir,tesaküf eder;nasıl tatlı tatlı ısıtan güneş ışığı bir adeseden geçtikten sonra bir noktada toplanıyor ve yakmaya başlıyorsa,kuvvetini fevkalade arttıran bu sevgi de sizi sarar ve tutuşturur.Onu dışarıdan birdenbire gelen bir şey zannetmek doğru değildir.O,zaten içimizde mevcut olan hislerin bizi şaşırtacak kadar şiddetlenivermesinden ibarettir.”
― Sabahattin Ali