Marie Ponsot Quotes

#1. Poetry is priceless ... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Marie Ponsot

#2. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

#3. With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

Valentina Zelyaeva

#4. Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones.

Thomas Hardy

#5. A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

Neal Bascomb

#6. I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

Marie Ponsot

#7. Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

Marie Ponsot

#8. Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones