Most days I’ll be sharing some of the quotes that have inspired me, made me smile or just made me think.
Classic Quotes #61
Osip Mandelstam
My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.
~ Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems
W.H. Auden
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
~ W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
Wallace Stevens
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
~ Wallace Stevens
Virginia Woolf
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
William Ernest Henley
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
~ William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death;
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