Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

~ Aberjhani

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I only live to love so manyFig trees but could neverSleep under one. One is tooLittle in one lifetime.

~ Al Mamoon Mohit

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Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate ‘-enic’ rhymes are hard to come by.

~ Stephen Sondheim

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Despair is the state in which anxiety and restlessness are immanent to existence. Nobody in despair suffers from “problems”, but from his own inner torment and fire. It’s a pity that nothing can be solved in this world. Yet there never was and here never will be anyone who would commit suicide for this reason. So much for the power that intellectual anxiety has over the total anxiety of our being! That is why I prefer the dramatic life, consumed by inner fires and tortured by destiny, to the intellectual, caught up in abstractions which do not engage the essence of our subjectivity. I despise the absence of risks, madness and passion in abstract thinking. How fertile live, passionate thinking is! Lyricism feeds it like blood pumped into the heart!

~ Emil M. Cioran

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