Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.

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"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

- Dylan Thomas

Love

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."

- Dylan Thomas

Balance

"Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow."

- Dylan Thomas

Hope

"“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”"

- Dylan Thomas

Relationships

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

- Dylan Thomas

Motivation

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration