William Wordsworth Quotes
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
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Who, except the poets, reads poetry?
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No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
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I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
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I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.
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I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.
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We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
