Admitting Quote by D. H. Lawrence

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance…

— Margaret Atwood

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This…

— Rae Armantrout

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

— John Cusack

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

— Chris Pine

I grew up very Pentecostal. I think there's some sort of puritanical self-flagellation that I am very good at doing and probably will continue…

— Ayo Edebiri

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and…

— Alice Cooper

“The lower self is a ghost to the higher Self.”

— Bert McCoy

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have…

— Winnie Harlow

“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.”

— Bryant McGill

“Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus-by…

— Bhagavad Gita