[Other Quotes]


"To make a difference, generosity of spirit doesn't mean you have to sacrifice your whole life to a cause. To make a difference you just have to care. You have to be willing to step out of the box as the expression goes, and speak up now and then."--Ana Castillo
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."--Buddha
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."--Carl Sandburg
"She snatched my eyes and threw them back to me"--Charlotte Mew
"I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet it the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions"--Diane di Prima
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room."--Emily Dickinson
"No real social change has been brought about without a revolution...revolution is but thought carried into action.--Emma Goldman
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."--Emma Goldman
"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?"--Emma Goldman
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."--Emma Goldman
"The veins are dry where creation’s blood once moved, and Poetry turned to eternal sadness."--Francesco Petrarcha
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"--Leonardo da Vinci
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."--Leonardo da Vinci
"I cannot understand at all why all your heads are twisted by what I modestly call the lyrics of puberty."--Marie Madeleine
"A riot is the language of the unheard."--Martin Luther King Jr.
"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."--Maya Angelou
"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind."--Mohandas Gandhi
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."--Mohandas Gandhi
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."--Stephen King
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."--Stephen King
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."--Sigmund Freud
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."--Susan B. Anthony
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."--Sylvia Plath
"This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself."--Sylvia Plath
"By that sin fell the angels."--William Shakespeare
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."--William Shakespeare
"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."--William Shakespeare
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"--William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."--William Shakespeare
"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."--William Shakespeare
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date."--William Shakespeare
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."--William Shakespeare
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see."--William Shakespeare
"There's daggers in men's smiles."--William Shakespeare
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red"--William Shakespeare
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."--William Shakespeare
"These words are razors to my wounded heart."--William Shakespeare
"I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."--Yoko Ono


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