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Previous Weekly Quotes

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

- Walt Whitman

I have buried you in every place I've been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.

- Bon Iver

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

- Italo Calvino

Sometimes the unsaid words remain in our soul forever. Some other times they are concealed and buried alive in the silence of our heart.

- Jean-Paul Malfatti

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

- Louis Aragon

I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

- Edgar Allen Poe

You never knew how much space you occupied in people's lives.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

A poem can have an impact but you can't expect the audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

Poetry is thoughts that breathe & words that burn.

Thomas Gray

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a clear expression of mixed feelings.

W.H. Auden

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found its words.

Robert Frost

Mind over matter? Mind doesn't matter. Then again, matter never minds.

Marc V

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."

Dodinsky

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

Lao Tzu

“Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.”

Ziad K. Abdelnour

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination."

- William Longgood

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen Covey

"When life gets blurry, adjust your focus."

Arlene San-Augustin

"Don't ever doubt yourself or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special."

Ariana Grande

"I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings."

Anonymous

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
-
Arthur Ashe

"Perhaps our fatal flaw is that we attempt to make forever out of people who are meant to be temporary."

Rudy Francisco

"You are no hero by awards you receive, but by the sacrifices you make."

Charlotte Bourdon

"There are too many things on my mind and I cannot create beautiful things today."

- Anon

People write because in the story, they can always meet who they want to see.

Kafka Asagiri; "Bungou Stray Dogs"

"Everything is in the right place, and the universe smiles because there is an ocean in me of beautiful things waiting to break free."

- Anon

"A burden shared is a burden halved."

- T.A. Webb

"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."

- William Goldman

"We are a gardens filled with landmines, waiting to explode into flowers."

- Anon

Life may not be a cakewalk, but it is a walk. And it may include cake.

- Charlotte Bourdon

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