Short Commendation Quotes & Sayings

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination. — Jim Carroll

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing. — Brandon Sanderson

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt

Graciousness is the luxury of the wise, — Patrick Rothfuss

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. — George Edward Woodberry

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)] — Shane Koyczan

Violence or Peace ... it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down.
The choice is completely ours! — Timothy Pina