There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.


John Ashbery

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If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro...
JOHN LOCKE
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND
When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER