Quotes About Poetryoflifebook

#1. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

Jeremy McCarter

#2. Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later.

Colishia S. Benjamin

#3. Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because ... Well ... Because you're a different person each time.

Derrolyn Anderson

#4. Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two ... Gods, that would be embarrassing.

Rick Riordan

#5. A library is the door to many lives.

Sharon Creech

#6. I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Kathleen Raine

#7. We stay like that for a while. No one tries to analyze it or offer solutions. No one interrupts. Sometimes, momentarily, I'm embarrassed by the whole disclosure, but I realize that I trust these people and I don't know how or when that happened.

Melina Marchetta

#8. But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Night becomes day only when the sun appears; dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Maybe this is how madness works. At first you're worried you're going crazy, but in the end you don't even care. You embrace it; it's the only thing you've got left. The only thing you can trust when the rest of the world has gone to shit.

Cat Clarke

#12. I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.

Brad Goreski

#13. If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side.

Victor Hugo