"I read poetry to save time."

Poetry, Time, Art, Reading

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Women

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Poetry, Death, Peace, Rest, Eternity

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Light, Skin, Expression

"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Peace, Beauty, Truth, Hope

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Poetry, Literature

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Poetry, Words

"Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Mourning, Shadow, Loss, Sea

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Poetry, Love, Beauty, Memory

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Wonder

"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

Poetry, Art, Excellence

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Time,

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

Nothing,

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

Feelings, Feeling, Talk

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."

Nothing,

"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation."

Work,

"Just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

Hope, Failure, Success, Courage

"Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them."

Relationship, Importance, Love, Power, Emotion

"We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift."

Identity, Sexuality, Nature, Freedom, Body

"I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners."

Fame, Society, Status, Hollywood

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

Cinema, Movies, Childhood, Escape, Imagination