Escritas — Poems List

Dr. Suzanne Botts

We need to make a

We need to make a decision, no matter what it is.

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Karl Marx

The tradition of all the

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

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Anonymous

Dedication is not what others

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

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Frank Herbert

Truth is subject to too

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

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Robert Frost

There are tones of voices

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

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Orson Welles

In Italy for thirty years

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power,

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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William Shakespeare

Simply the thing that I

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

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Eric Hoffer

We cannot be sure that

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights too long

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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Kathe Kollwitz

I do not want to

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

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C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Christian Longe

I love freedom for what

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

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Shawnee Indian Chant

Do not wrong or hate

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.

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James Carroll

We spend most of our

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

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William Hazlitt

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love the deep quiet

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

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Geronimo

I was born on the

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

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Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

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William Hazlitt

A really great man has

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

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Mehmet Karagoz

When you have reached a

When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything.

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Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)

My friends, your people have

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

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William Hazlitt

No act terminating in itself

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

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