#hors

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ↗

— John Adams

#horses #keep #like #minds #must

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. ↗

— Richie Allen

#being #better #business #destroyed #four

I ended the war a horse ahead. ↗

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

#ended #horse #i #war

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#custer #dead #had #heroes #horse

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#daily #daily life #history #horse #incorporated

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#good #horse #shaped #well

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i