Quotes of Thom Gunn

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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

- Thom Gunn

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“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown