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“if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.”

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Etel Adnan, born on February 24, 1925, is a renowned poet. Her works are known for their unique style and profound reflections on nature, love, and the human condition. more

“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.”

Book Film Culture Effects Painting Scene Musician Destruction Painter Artistic Filmmaker Giants Tape Burned Taliban Sculptors Infamous Afghan Vandalism Vcr

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Love is the use one makes of another.”

Use Love Is

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“A joke is necessary at this time.”

Jokes

Book:Here and Somewhere Else

Source: Here and Somewhere Else

“Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.”

World Country Dangerous Poet Resurrection Graveyard

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.”

Writing Age Prose Verses Materialistic

Book:The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings

Source: The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings

“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.”

Ifs Men Should Form Spirit Blood Divine Ready Poet Dear Aids Flesh Genuine Welcome Household Flesh And Blood Inmates Transfiguration

Author:William Wordsworth

“It is the stress that holds the structure up.”

Stress Structure

Author:P. K. Page

“No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.”

Tvs Pages Mood Bad Mood

Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

“Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.”

Writing Trying Has Beens Hours Written Habit Good Things Busy Very Good Reserves Busy Life Work Habits

Author:John Updike

“Many a true word is spoken in jest”

Jest True Words

Book:The Reeve's Prologue and Tale

Source: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale

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