Favorite saying

• ""Family faces are magic mirrors - looking at those who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future." - Gail Lumet Buckley Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. - Thomas Gray The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. - Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958 It's impossible to write poetry in front of the TV Almost impossible not to write in the sun In the woods, every breath is a poem The words form in the sunbeams, to those who look for them. - Daisey Verlaef Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. - Philip Larkin Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "May I print a kiss on your lips?" I said, And she nodded her full permission: So we went to press and I rather guess We printed a full edition. - Joseph Lilientha Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted. - Edmund Vance Cooke Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. - Margaret Mitchell Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. - Eve Glicksman If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? - Author Unknown The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. - National Review"