For some time now, I have kept a list of quotations that I like—for one reason or another.  Some came from newsletters, some from the signature of e-mail messages, one from another poet's blog, one from a list server. Following is a paragraph composed completely of quotations.  To avoid plagiarism, I have included the author of the quotations in parentheses.  See if you find any truth therein.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. (John Irving)  You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. (Jack London) There are two ways of knowing, under standing and over bearing. The first is called wisdom. The second is called winning arguments. (Kenneth Rexroth)  I prefer to turn to poetry to give utterance to the profound contradictions of life. (Czeslaw Milosz) [One] who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. (Friedrich Nietzsche) A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. (Roald Dahl) [But w]hatever part of the dream you remember  is exactly what you need,  like the grain of sand at the center of the pearl. (Gwynne Spencer) [Thus, i]n the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)  And …in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.  (Christian Wiman)