Quote by Stephen Colbert
I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and - like all teenagers

I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didnt like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. – Stephen Colbert

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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? – Stephen Colbert

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I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. – Stephen Colbert

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. – Leonard Cohen

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I feel really good in the teacher role. – Jimmy Chamberlin

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Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. – Marlo Thomas

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