Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

Richard Hugo's Popular Quotes

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

- Richard Hugo

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

- Richard Hugo

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of troub…

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I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

- Richard Hugo

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

- Richard Hugo

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

- Richard Hugo

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. …

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A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

- Richard Hugo

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

- Richard Hugo