Pedestals For Plants Quotes & Sayings

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. — Jack Prelutsky

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us. — Abdu'l- Baha

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow?
If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks. — James Canon

Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit. — John Wilmot

I was born into a world full of 'specialists'. I'm not sure whether it's the result of our education system or just natural entropy, but it's very uncommon to know a poet with even a mediocre knowledge about art, or an artist with a good taste in poetry, and so on and on. What this really is: lack of general education in a structural sense: god knows how many people I've met that are actually PROUD about proclaiming their ignorance about another field: it is as if it signifies their 'devotion to one path' while in reality they really only look like a buffoon if you ask me. New is that I am encountering 'Literary Critics' that proudly proclaim to 'never have read any foreign poetry' as if a 'movie critic' that only has watched Dutch films would be somehow capable of criticizing them in any true sense of the word. — Martijn Benders

If you are ready for the bad surprises, then you are ready to reach the unreachable places! ~ — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. — Abigail Van Buren