Seemingly Silly Poetry Quotes

#1. No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Harold Bloom

#2. Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

Adrian Morley

#3. Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process of striving after goals-that is, growth-that brings happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

Erskine Caldwell

#5. The desire for true happiness
is nothing to feel ashamed about.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#6. It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.

Louie Giglio

#7. My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Barack Obama

#8. She trusted Littlefinger only a little, and Varys not at all.

George R R Martin

#9. Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Miyamoto Musashi

#10. We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

James Hillman

#11. The more you recover your authentic self, the more your destiny will unfold before your eyes. Just keep doing your inner work - that's the most essential thing.

Robin S. Sharma