Escritas — Poems List

Gilbert Dolwick

he was way too low

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Simone Weil

The afflicted are not listened

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

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Simone Weil

We must prefer real hell

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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B. J. Gupta

Earlier people used to switch

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

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Pablo Picasso

If only we could pull

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

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The Notorious B.I.G.

im canabalistic like that nigga

im canabalistic like that nigga jeffrey dahmer

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J. D. Salinger

If you really want to

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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Pablo Picasso

The artist is a receptacle

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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Thad Guidry

Save the world, not your

Save the world, not your money

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Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

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Pablo Picasso

The people who make art

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

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The Refined Poet

In the midst of the

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

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Pablo Picasso

If everybody is looking for

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

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Pablo Picasso

Everything is a miracle. It

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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Okakura Kakuzo

The art of life lies

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

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Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

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The Refined Poet

Thundering in my head; the

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

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Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

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B. J. Gupta

Mahatma is one whose soul

Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye.

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Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists

Good artists copy, great artists steal

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Enid Bagnold

As for death one gets

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

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J. D. Salinger

You're going to have to

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

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