Quote by André Gide

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

Other quotes by André Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. – André Gide

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Adversity
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – André Gide

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Art
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. – André Gide

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Hypocrisy
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

Category:
Poetry

Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

Category:
Poetry

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I was on Oprahs show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didnt even go into my family, who had the most influence. – Andrew Shue

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Well I dont know because I dont have a real relationship with the industry. – Danny Glover

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They both go together you cant be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round – in a bikini no less. – Kiana Tom

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To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. – Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th

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Conformity