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Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.

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Category: Quotes & Inspiration

Kurt Vonnegut [Quote]

April 22, 2021April 26, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.Leave a comment

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

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George R. R. Martin [Quote]

March 30, 2021April 5, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.Leave a comment

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.”

-George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Kurt Vonnegut [Quote]

March 23, 2021March 29, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.4 Comments

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

Yehuda Amichai [Quote]

March 17, 2021March 18, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.1 Comment

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

– Yehuda Amichai, considered to be Israel’s greatest modern poet

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Kurt Vonnegut [Quote]

March 9, 2021March 18, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.2 Comments

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country

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Salvatore Quasimodo [Quote]

March 2, 2021March 18, 2021 Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr.Leave a comment

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”

-Salvatore Quasimodo, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Literature

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