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"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."
"There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes"
"People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations."
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
"If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself"
"You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore."
"Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue."
"I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system."
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."
"You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life."
"If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died."
"Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."
"May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young."
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
"You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way."
"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
"There is nothing so stable as change."
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
"No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke."
"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."