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"All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now."
"Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work."
"Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June."
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."
"An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me.""
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her."
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot."
"Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own."
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."
"Now is the time. It is never too late to start something."
"I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors."
"Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head."
"It is the business of little minds to shrink."
"The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other."
"Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen."
"Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower."