Poems List

Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet;

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the people discover you!

Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!

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Ahmed Korayem

It is our scars that

It is our scars that make us so beautiful yet we go well out of our way to hide them. That is our tragedy

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Orson Welles

My doctor told me to

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.

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Voltaire

Verses which do not teach

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

All man must live in

All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

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Ahmed Korayem

Never hurt a woman unless

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz

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Orson Welles

Every actor in his heart

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man is disbeliever! Everyone

No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don’t give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

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Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems too simple

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

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Orson Welles

I hate television. I hate

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

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Ahmed Korayem

Kick a man who's down

Kick a man who's down and he's bound to kill you if he ever gets back up

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have a light,

If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the record of

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Ahmed Korayem

Mediocrity is but a by-product

Mediocrity is but a by-product of the dispassionate

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Orson Welles

I hate it when people

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

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L. Schefer

The greatest poem is not

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Obedience is the greatest refuge

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

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P. G. Wodehouse

Henry glanced hastily at the

Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.

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Ahmed Korayem

All people are innately good

All people are innately good and forgiving but are situationally evil and relentless

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Frederick William Robertson

The office of poetry is

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always possible that

It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!

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P. G. Wodehouse

The village of Market Blandings

The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

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Ahmed Korayem

I am willing to be

I am willing to be persuaded into seeing any other person's perspective as long as they possess, at the very least, two properly functioning brain cells. Unfortunately, this is a rare commodity.

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