Wordsworths Intimations Quotes & Sayings

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Without justice you won't have stability. — Saad Hariri

I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me. — Terence

Acceptance
There are things I miss
that I shouldn't,
and those I don't
that I should.
Sometimes we want
what we couldn't
sometimes we love
who we could. — Lang Leav

I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals ... — Dan Savage

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — Annie Dillard

If you're willing to roll with the punches, you find you get punched less. — Stephanie Evanovich

She's a nice girl. Not my type." "You don't like them nice?" He had another cigarette going. The smoke was being fanned away from his face by his hand. "I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin." "They take you to the cleaners," Randall said indifferently. — Raymond Chandler

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure. — Mason Cooley

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others ... And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what? — Roberto Bolano

The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck. — T.H. White

You're weird," she said, falling asleep. "But that's okay. It makes me seem normal. — Cath Crowley

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less. — Ransom Riggs

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary? — Stephen Hawking