#non

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#oscar-wilde #poetry #reading #age

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#need #none #reason #silent #speak

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#bestow #claim #freedom #gift #keep

‎"Broken does not mean non-functioning, or incapacitated, it does however mean ready for repair. ↗

— Shawn Boreta

#incapacitated #inspirational #non-functioning #repaired #inspirational

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

What other people think of me is none of my business. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#me #none #other #people #think

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive. ↗

— William S. Paley

#conceive #made #miracles #none #revelation

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#find #give #him #little #much

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#cannot #communicate #consistently #each #era