Poetry Quote by Xiaolu Guo Download Open image ““In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.”” — Xiaolu Guo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to… — Zong Qinghou Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them--… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Even if Chinese own the entire world; still they will be servants.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Red's world, you see, is a closed circle. Not that it matters. I know that I'm a closed circle, too, and it's all I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“In China, we say: 'There are many dreams in a long night.' It has been a long night, but I don't know if I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I do think there will be a better understanding between the two sides - East and West. And eventually, the so-called two sides will… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“I am sick of speaking English like this... I am scared that I have become a person who is always very aware of talking,… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, these cockroaches were sadomasochists, looking for the most painful way to die. Once I swallowed one absent-mindedly drinking my… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
