Ryan Ricks

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
― T.S. Eliot

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

“O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
― William Butler Yeats