I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it, ' which is what I wanted to be able to do.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Lao Tzu
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Maya Angelou
You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of...
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Lauren Oliver
...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?
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William Shakespeare
We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life. Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes...
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Maya Angelou
More Quotes By Kenneth Koch
AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITYFor every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it, ' which is what I wanted to be able...
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who...
