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-William Blake But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a ma n is, So he Sees. -William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -William Blake Every night, and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn, and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. -William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to Arts or to Empire, that it is destru ctive of both, as all their History shows, for the above Reason of Individual Me rit being its Great Hatred. Empires flourish till they become Commercial & then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. --William Blake When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do. -William Blake First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. -William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energ y, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. -William Blake Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. -William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, b ut because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. -W illiam Blake You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do i t for twenty minutes, and watch your heart start beating. -Barbara Sher Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate. -J. R. R. Tolkien Work first, and then rest. -Ruskin I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation. -Gerard Manely Hopkins No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more ba lanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of d esign, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiven ess to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped. -Gerard Manely Hopkins Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. --Gerard Manely Hopkins When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their pers onalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to f eel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my fa ce is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from oth ers. -W.H. Auden It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing o r talking about his art than he can by practicing it. -W.H. Auden You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back w ith the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always lea ves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God. -Dylan Thomas Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. -Dylan Thomas

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a goo d poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the univer se, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. Dylan Thomas I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their work ing, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, a nd my effort is their self-expression. -Dylan Thomas [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. -Dylan Thomas As Gods servants, clothed in humility, we step into the gifts God has graced us w ith, and through our best, commit to glorifying Him in everything we do. -City Youth Music, Twitter User. I am a worker, loyal to my friends and clients, and even though it is difficult in this world of much falsity, I try to live for principals and not for interest s. -David Aguirre B., Twitter User, Translated from the Spanish. Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the froze n sand drives it arattle against the lidless windows and we my dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrrr. -William Carlos William s There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other . There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I ll write wh atever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it ll be g ood if the authentic spirit of change is on it. -William Carlos Williams Lightning/plays about the edges of the clouds. The sky to the north/is placid,/blue in the afterglow/as the storm piles up. -W illiam Carlos Williams The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the constructio n of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. -William Carl os Williams Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to dev elop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we h ave missed in the past. -William Carlos Williams Try mixing the senses up in your poetry and see what happens. Mix, match and bor row analogies from your multi-perceptions. -China Sinclair The ideal life, the life full of completion, haunts us all; we feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are. -Phillips Brooks Why is it that the smart get smarter and the slow get slower? Is it not that the thing that makes you smart makes you want more of it and the thing that makes y ou slow drives you away from the cure? -China Sinclair How does gravity propagate itself? -China Sinclair