Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.
– Norman Davies
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- Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience. – Gina Barreca
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- Just because you’re done with the past doesn’t mean the past is done with you. – Paul Doiron
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- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds. – Russell T Davies
- The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. – Charles ens
- If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, -˜Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up. – Christopher Babson
- If you don’t know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. – Christopher Babson
- I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball
- With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that’s the beauty of poetry; it’s rebellious, like me. – Melody Lee
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- Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things – Ilyas Kassam
- What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this! – TRIPURARI
- ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY. – Amy King
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
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- You will never get what you’ve never had if you never do what you’ve never done – Unknownimous
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