Quote by John Cusack
Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, tryin

Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

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Death is a billion-dollar business. They cant even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why dont you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a drivers license? Its totally insane. – John Cusack

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But no, I dont really like romantic comedies, so I dont really care. I never go see em. – John Cusack

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Most movies, once the action starts theres no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then theres just explosions until the end. – John Cusack

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[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire, “My Heart Laid Bare,” Intimate Journals, 1864

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in unison in all human souls. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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