John Masefield Quotes
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
Dambisa Moyo
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
Ursula Andress
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History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Orson F. Whitney
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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
W. H. Auden
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield