Turgid Cell Quotes

#1. The boy may wrestle, when Night
working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

John Armstrong

#2. Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Natasha Trethewey

#3. The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

Judith Flanders

#4. And I had about a hundred friend requests. Shit was getting real.

Mina Vaughn

#5. One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient ...

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#6. Those green irises were like gentle pools of brilliant meadows of sage and green-envy coneflowers swaying in a warm breeze.
HOLY fuck. What the hell sort of poetry was that dribbling out of my twisted brain?

Christine Zolendz

#7. It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

Blair Underwood

#8. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell