“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The visions we offer our children shape the future.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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