Quote Quote from “Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1800)” Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth
Quote Quote from “The School Musician Director And Teacher Vol. 43 (1971) ” Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
Quote Quote from “Slabs Of The Sunburnt West (1922)” Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg
Quote Quote from “As You Like It (5.1) ” A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Quote Quote from “A Poet's Advice (1958)” To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting E.E. Cummings
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)” Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
Quote Quote from “On Listening To Lectures” The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. - Plutarch
Quote Quote from “The Diary Of A Young Girl (1942 - 1944)” We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank
