Poetic Licence Quotes

#1. Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.

Tennessee Williams

#2. To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#3. love.
love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. love is comfortable. i could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else.

F.R. Media

#4. You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Ronald Reagan

#5. No mention, no tension, free mind."
-Bhima

Samya Boxberger-Oberoi

#6. I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's easy to feel incredibly alienated and lonely when you feel like nobody else is having those thoughts too.

Mira Gonzalez

#7. There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet are the casualties.

Eric Mann

#8. What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

Henry MacKenzie

#9. Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

Mitch Albom

#10. Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire.

Arthur Quiller-Couch