My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
– Michelle Geaney
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- Life IS the gift you were given,So stop waiting around for your dues.Use it wisely and you’ll gift yourself abundantly. – Michelle Geaney
- Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness. – Toba Beta
- If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness. – Deshwal Sachin
- Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness. – Sorin Cerin
- The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view,That one has achieved nothing. – Ngrjuna
- I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart – Duane Henderson
- I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me. – Debasish Mridha
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. – Dean Koontz
- Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas. – Toba Beta
- Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born. – Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet
- Don’t accept a life that has been molded for you by others because eventually you’ll succumb to its falseness. – Carol Vorvain
- I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them. – Thomm Quackenbush
- When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity. – Bryant McGill
- When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Existence of existence depends on what exists on your existence!! – Balkrishn Sanmotra
- The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. – Richard Dawkins
- When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
- You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
- My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. – Anthony Swofford
- The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. – Warren G Bennis
- Despair? I don’t despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation. – Megan Derr
- Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair. – Jim George
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- …[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating. – Florida ScottMaxwell
- Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability. – SA Tawks
- The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered. – Jennifer Walkup
- Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. – Syed Sharukh
- Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. – Faraaz Kazi
- Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently. – Michelle Tea
- Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance. – Michelle Tea
- A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person’s soul & make them unravel with delight. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
- Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do-¦] – NZuri Za Austin
- A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society. – Jason E Hodges
- Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells. – Richelle E Goodrich
- I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living. – Michelle M Pillow
- …The existence or non-existence of an undefined ‘god’ are quite poin – Herman Bondi