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“I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.”

Knows Inspirational Has Beens Hard Enough Play Poetry Waiting Minutes Twenties Extras Play Hard Enough Already

Author:Andrea Gibson

“My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.”

Inspirational Giving Heart Stills Poetry Waiting Sweet My Heart Jackets Leather Leather Jackets

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.”

Hands Poetry Waiting Dark Heard Feet Mines Broken Taste Musician Contemplation Fancy Cheer Fabric Unseen Magician Palaces Fables Wands Portal Cupid Arabian

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

Littles Stills Moments Poetry Literature Waiting Voice Common Poet Thousand England Supreme Great Poet

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.”

Use Poetry Night Waiting Sleep Circumstances Oneself Stations Railway Distressing Railway Station

Book:Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit

Source: Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”

Poetry Waiting Power Streets Standing Corners Stand Alone Standing Alone Street Corners Beatnik

Book:An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso

Source: An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Moments Lasts Poetry Reading Waiting Taken Reader Strikes Wounds Absurd Immortal Over It Lasting Touching Get Over

Author:Robert Frost

“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”

Ifs Humans Said Poetry Waiting Break Feet Approach Deeds Woods Forests Fairy Riding Faerie Break Off

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson