{"quotes":[{"text":"Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your own face.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["blame","blames","face","food-for-thought","help","israelmore-ayivor","laugh","learn","learning","people","platform","poem","poetry","recite","smile","sponsor","stop","study","support","teach","teacher","teaching","wear"],"id":22206,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["do-it","do-it-yourself","face","food-for-thought","impossible","israelmore-ayivor","keep-smiling","lecture","lecturer","poem","pretty-face","recite","smile","smiling","smiling-face","stage","taught","teach","teacher","wear","you-can","you-can-do-it"],"id":32446,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["acting","action","be-good","belief","blind-faith","breath","breath-of-god","conscience","creator","faith","fake","fake-believers","fake-christians","followers","god","good-deeds","good-throughts","goodness","guidance","intentions","mind","morality","recite","religion","sheep","spirituality","steer","suzy-kassem","true","truth","word","word-of-god","words"],"id":40165,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["emotions","grow-old","lesson","old-lady","poems","recite","resonance","teaching"],"id":140249,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["change","food-for-thought","impossible","israelmore-ayivor","laugh","leader","learn","poem","poetry","recital","recitation","recite","smile","smiling","smiling-face","stage","teach","teacher","wear"],"id":165291,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","boyfriend","cute-poem","dedicate","dedicated","dedication","fall-in-love","girlfriend","husband","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-poem","love","lovers","partner","poem","poet","poetry","promise","recite","reciting","relationship","romantic","romantic-poem","short-poem","soul","soulmate","spouse","wait","wife","world"],"id":189434,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["always","brief","compose","endure","enduring","ephemera","ephemeral","eternal","eternity","fleeting","forever","here","immortal","immortality","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lasting","living","momentary","mortal","novelist","passing","permanence","permanent","perpetual","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry","read","reader","reading","recite","short","sit","temporary","transient","transitory","write","writer","writing","writing"],"id":189771,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["breakup","day","distrust","distrustful","forget","forgotten","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lay","leave","left","longing","love","love-poem","loved","lover","loving","memory","poem","poetry","prandial","pray","prayer","recall","recite","recited","relationship","remember","silence","silent","tales","trust","undressed","where","where-are-you","where-were-you"],"id":232105,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["book","book-addict","book-addiction","book-cover","book-lover","book","cover","creative-writing","cute","encase","epic","fiction","genre","interesting","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","literature","literature","mystery","non-fiction","novel","novelist","novella","open","pages","peruse","poet","poetry","quotes","read","reader","reading","reading-addiction","reading","recite","sci-fi","science-fiction","shelf","shelves","swallow","thriller","white","words","writer"],"id":277417,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["autumn","back","break-up","breaking-up","chains","come-back","days","ex","ex-boyfriend","ex-girlfriend","give-up","go","gone","heartbreak","hope","hopeful","hopeless","indulge","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love-poem","memory","mind","over","poem","quote","recite","relationship","remember","summer"],"id":322914,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}