Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: poison

Quoted In The Grove:
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
~Robert Trout

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
~Tom Petty

I’m candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.
~Chael Sonnen

EndQuote:
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
~Jonathan Swift

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Next Time Exercise Prompt: chance

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Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
~Buddha

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~Saint Augustine

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
~Joyce Meyer

He who physics himself poisons a fool.
~Proverb

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
~David Furnish

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Lessons from jealousy and anger: sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.
~Terri Guillemets

If you keep these old carcasses about you, they will poison and destroy your life. Go bury your sorrows, and do not dig them up again.
~J W Blosser

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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
~Derrick Jensen

I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley’s drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.
~Erin Brockovich

Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.
~Sheldon Whitehouse

We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.
~Walter F Mondale

Live or die, but don’t poison everything.
~Anne Sexton

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It’s interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that’s what Earth is doing to us.
~Simon Toyne

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Posted From The Grove

Woes and wonders of Power,
that tonic hell,
synthesis of poison and panacea.
~Emile M Cioran

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
~Golda Meir

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
~Henry Adams

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
~Aeschylus

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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
~Chanakya

Falsehood is Poison — dangerous when placed In Truth enough to hide the Bitter Taste.
~Arthur Guiterman

Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.
~Nenia Campbell

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~Andre Maurois

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But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
~Herbert Hoover

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
~Edward Kennedy

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In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it’s poison. It used to be appropriate, but it’s not anymore, and we haven’t learned that lesson yet.
~Tim Minchin

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
~Catherine Of Siena

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Leaders at the top of al Qaeda’s hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins – botulinum and salmonella – and the chemical poison cyanide.
~Barton Gellman

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
~Otto Hahn

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.
~Noam Chomsky

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
~Vladimir Putin

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn’t know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
~Otto Hahn

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
~Winston Churchill

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
~James Madison

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Nuclear tests poison the environment ‒ and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
~Ban Ki-moon

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It’s definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
~Wladimir Klitschko

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia’s aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
~James Forrestal

Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
~Winnie Byanyima

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We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people’s ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.
~Sun Yat-sen (1866 ‒ 1925) hero to Mainland China and Taiwan

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy’s poison but also purges us of our own filth.
~Mao Zedong (1893 ‒ 1976) founder People’s Republic of China

Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
~Liu Xiaobo (12/28/55 – 07/13 /17) Nobel Peace Prize 2010

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~Emily Downe: Worlds Apart (2:58) meditation on religion and science

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~Max Sherman: Chloe Cherry Likes Her Men Like Her Tea (2:09) a meditation on temperature, less edifying, more entertaining

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~Erica Eng: Poison (2:00) the littlest bit preachy, but it’s addiction that wants help

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~Kim Kyungsik: Ballerino bro . poison (music: primary poison) (4:31) brush-by and reply, dance is the language

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~Runway Journal: Poison and Cure, 2019 (7:09) posited question: Hiroshima ‒ cure or poison

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On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.
~Michael Sheen

Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that’s when you sell yourself short.
~Tony Curl

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The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It’s hard to entangle which particular source… there are lots of competing poisons out there.
~James Comey

I’ve noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it’s easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.
~Kellyanne Conway

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The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.
~Richard Flanagan

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‘Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.’
~Maya Angelou

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America… that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
~Ernestine Rose

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Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
~Louis Eric Barrier

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
~Henry A Wallace

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
~Adolf Hitler

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil’s policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
~Chuck Schumer

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
~Harry Belafonte

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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~Johannes Brahms

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
~John Sununu

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The past could liberate or imprison ‒ it creates a nation’s character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
~F Sionil Jose

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§ VIDEO:
I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can’t be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from ‘Tokyo Story‘ to ‘Poison Ivy: The New Seduction‘ and not have a Bergman movie.
~Steve Erickson

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
~Emir Kusturica

You can have villains like the Penguin, who strut around in a tuxedo with an umbrella, and Poison Ivy and all of the fantastic stuff she does, but unless there’s a bit of a human in there, and unless there’s a credible threat, then Batman himself doesn’t work.
~Paul Dini

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I think this is a trait that runs throughout the queer community, the obsession with the hyper-feminine female villains. And we see it in Disney movies and in movies like ‘Death Becomes Her,’ and in characters like Poison Ivy and Catwoman.
~Jinkx Monsoon

With ‘Poison,’ I’m sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
~Todd Haynes

By the time I finished ‘Poison,’ the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.
~Todd Haynes

We all love a bit of ‘true love conquers all,’ and when I started on ‘Poison,’ ‘Charm‘ and ‘Beauty,’ that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn’t want to break.
~Sarah Pinborough

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In ‘Remember the Night,’ love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
~Preston Sturges ‘

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
~Jon M Chu

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The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they’re holding in their hands or inside their house.
~James Comey

I don’t know about you, but I feel like my day begins by blinking my eyes open, grabbing my phone, and just pouring poison directly into my cerebellum.
~Moshe Kasher

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative ‒ Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating.
~Catherine Zeta-Jones

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~Marcel Proust

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
~Joan Halifax

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~Omeleto: Love Ya Like Poison (12:01) being family

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~Lindsay Sharp: Enchanted (2007) (2:44) Poison • Poison Apple Scene

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~Movieclips: Arsenic and Old Lace (2:40) Gentleman in the Window Seat scene
Cary Grant frantic with discovery

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~Piper McKenzie: The Poison Kiss (17:48 ) old style B & W, in time for Halloween

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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: ‘Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?’ Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don’t get it.
~Imelda Staunton

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I’m needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.
~Joan Collins

Feeling ‘ugly’ or ‘unattractive’ seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them.
~Rupi Kaur

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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now… It’s kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn’t have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger… and that’s what I’m trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
~Flume

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have ‒ it’s toxic to any environment.
~Jonny Kim

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
~Rihanna

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
~Oriana Fallaci

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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
~Jean Cocteau

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn’t know which of them it was.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

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You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
~Clive Anderson

Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it.
~Joe Paterno

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.
~Christopher Paolini

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You have three groups. One who is happy. Then players who are doubtful, but still feel they have a chance. And then, you have the losers at that moment, who will go to the second group and try to influence them. They are poison for your team. At Inter, and also at Crystal Palace, you’ve got to get rid of those players.
~Frank de Boer

Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It’s poison.
~Jason Witten

Golf’s ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand ‒ not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.
~John Updike

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§ MUSIC:
I think about it as not so much ‘I need to get it out of me,’ it’s not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.
~Aldous Harding

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer to that can be cliche, and that could really poison your mind, from Morricone, to Bernstein, to Neil Young. So much music has been written for Westerns, that you wonder how you’re going to find a new or different idea.
~Alexandre Desplat

I must make my own way, and when I’m into things is when I do them best. If I’m not ready to perform and I do anyway, it’s like feeding the people poison.
~Rita Marley

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If you are a pop band, don’t say you’re a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
~Geezer Butler (of Black Sabbath)

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren’t really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had ‒ maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.
~Nuno Bettencourt (of Extreme)

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Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it’s sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
~Bret Michaels

I’m not financially insecure anymore either so I don’t have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
~Kip Winger (of Winger)

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Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.
~Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones)

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My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don’t listen to any music when I’m in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
~John Lydon (of Sex Pistols)

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~Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn (4:44) obligatory opening, then concert cuts, herding chaos

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~Nicole Scherzinger: Poison (3:55) spicy

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~zimperliese: Christopher Lee sings Name Your Poison (3:56) a bit of bizarre, no apologies

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~Soul Scratch: Poison (3:27) temptation in white, chocolate poison

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~Shikai: Poison Ivy Session (2:32) photo shoot to music

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~Reba McEntire: Poison Sugar (2:50) for the rat

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~ABC: Poison Arrow (3:06) NY glitz approach to love

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~Echo Black: Poison Apple (3:52) gender ambiguous in time for Halloween

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~Vivian Grillo: Poison Apple (3:35) a different sort of sizzzzle

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~davidagreen: Verve Pipe • Penny Is Poison (3:45) sung to nightmarish Halloween clips

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~Ghostface Killah: Poisonous Darts – Master Iller (2:31) old kung fu masters fighting to rap music, it’s the choreography

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~Alice Cooper: Poison (4:28) A. Cooper comes out against temptation?

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~Poor Man’s Poison: Give And Take (3:17) certainly political, side uncertain

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~Rita Ora: Poison (4:53) style and choice

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At eighteen… Love, when he comes wandering like a lost angel at our door, is at once admitted, welcomed, embraced; his quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life; there are no fears of poison, none of the barb which no leech’s hand can extract; that perilous passion…
~Charlotte Brontë

Oh! if I am deceived, let me be deceived still. Let me live in the Elysium of those soft looks; poison me with kisses, kill me with smiles…
~William Hazlitt

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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
~William Empson

Heartbreak wanders throughout the body ‒ it’s a lack of oxygen to the soul, a chain dragging from the mind, a poisoning of the blood, a sorrowful symphony drowning out all else.
~Terri Guillemets

If you are in a toxic relationship, that poisons you everywhere else in your life.
~Matthew Hussey

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
~Yasmin Mogahed

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
~Ambrose Bierce

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
~Richard Harris (twice married)

Most of the Women’s Libbers I knew really didn’t want to have a piece of the men’s pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn’t even want a slice of.
~Grace Paley

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
~Germaine Greer

We hear a lot about this phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ but I think the real poison in manhood is silence.
~John Whaite

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Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.
~Michael Bassey Johnson

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
~Giordano Bruno

It was then first the poison of envy infected the pleasures of youth!……
~Mark Twain

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
but whispering tongues can poison truth.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
~Aeschylus

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
~Havelock Ellis

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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
~George Gurdjieff

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell. Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.
~Buddy Hackett

It’s not good for comedy to be like, ‘Thanks for liking me.’ Being popular is poison.
~Zach Galifianakis

I like boysenberry. I have no idea what it is. And it sounds like poison ‒ which is terrifying ‒ but you can’t hold a name against a flavor. If you did that, everyone would hate Crunchberries.
~Rob Riggle

What do you get if you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? You get a rash of good luck.
~Wayne Rich (in Boys’ Live)

Patrick… means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he’d be dead.
~Richard Ojeda

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There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
~Steven Brust

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The coward’s weapon, poison.
~John Fletcher

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
~Saib Tabrizi

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
~Victor Hugo

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I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
~Gisele Bundchen

Gossip is poison.
~Gisele Bundchen

Rumour, gossip, slander ‒ single drops of poison can pollute an entire system.
~Bettany Hughes

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~Bodhidharma

Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

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A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise —
One wandering thought pollutes the day…
~Terri Guillemets

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
~Steve Maraboli

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But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
~Fitzhugh Tuoti

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don’t eat has been proved indispensable to life!
~George Bernard Shaw

The white meat of chicken is therefore the essence of a light diet and dark meat is poison.
~Martin H Fischer

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
~Paracelsus

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
~Walter Bagehot

I’m a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.
~Nadya Suleman

By calling GMOs ‘poison’ and ‘evil,’ Bill… poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
~Kyle Hill

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
~Lucretius

A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
~Kate Christensen

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Everybody’s got their poison, and mine is sugar.
~Derrick Rose

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.
~Jasmine Guinness

One man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach.
~George Ade

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We wouldn’t have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.
~Donella Meadows

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can’t run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn’t poison the rest of us, You can’t run a company.
~Hal Sparks

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
~Paul Goodman

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.
~Jillian Michaels

There’s no reason that we need to be counting things and adding things up in order to sit down and eat a meal. I enjoy eating so much; I don’t want to do match every time I eat.
~Rory Freedman

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@Writers Platform

To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.
~Victor Hugo

My hypochondria is really a proficiency in sucking out of every incident of life, whatever it may be, the greatest possible quantity of poison for my own use.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
~Philip Roth

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
~William Rose Benet

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It wasn’t until I started to do ‘Poison River’ that the readership started falling. ‘Poison River‘ started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don’t know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.
~Gilbert Hernandez

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
~Georges Bataille

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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It’s a terrible poison, writing.
~A S Byatt

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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
~H P Lovecraft

Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he’s kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they’ve been raised away from the poisons of society.
~Isaac Hempstead Wright

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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
~Simone Weil

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
~Giuseppe Garibaldi

I’ll tell you something that’s completely true – you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you’ve got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it’s going to give you poison inside the body.
~Jean Reno

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Prewritten Prompt: poison

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We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
~Gordon B Hinckley

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
~Johann Arndt

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
~Tryon Edwards

There is death in every road and every choice. Life is a poison to avoid or a present to unwrap, endless temptation or an education, a dread and daily trap to endure or a step into adventure. Only the ending isn’t a choice.
~author unknown

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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
~Cyril Connolly

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
~Simone Weil

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
~Emma Goldman

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God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.
~John Piper

All the religions are basically good, but there’s something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.
~Jimmy Barnes

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
~Francis Schaeffer

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
~Jeff Miller

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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.
~Annie Besant

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~Adam Smith

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I am not a sun person at all. I think it’s a cancerous poison and I don’t want it touching me.
~Rachel Kushner

Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
Alfred Nobel

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
~William Empson

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
~Lord Chesterfield

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Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it’s wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don’t avoid.
~Ray Comfort

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die
~William Shakespeare

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Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.
~Author unknown

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
~August Strindberg

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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
~Paracelsus

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
~Aubrey McClendon

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
~Peter Latham

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.
~Hindu proverb

Everything is toxic. That’s the point. You can’t avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.
~Jane Smiley

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Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‘Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.’
~Christopher Hitchens

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
~Abraham Verghese

I’d just lie around all day. It’s the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I’d be walking across the room and think, ‘There it is; I got to rest.’ And I had to, right then.
~Daniel Woodrell

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.
~Molly Ivins

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§ The Exercise:

the reveal

meditating pondering that last thought alive
sensing with certainty the moment arrived
wondering if welcome happily knowing it
ready for answers agreeably showing it
or cheated of seasons feel the loss keenly
lodged alone with love or lived out uniquely
feeling unfinished regretting it deeply
best of breed to bad seed gross and unseemly

a song meant for all voices, pleading and not letting it
forgetting life’s reason, revolting and upsetting it
life’s house full of choices, but selling or subletting it
marginal betting on nettings in business and fretting it
bombs fall like tears, local threats and not sweating it
world full of poisons, opinions and toxins
no longer matter to these occupied coffins
death may have answers to souls no longer boxed in

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5s ‘n 7s

eat poisoned apples
spit out bitter seeds
sprout iffy choices
watering the weeds
dirt riddled compost
filth rated fertile
class teacher, miss deeds

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what brings down towers
destroys a promise
burns and tarnishes
scorched reputations
aborts a future?
prison’s poison did
a poisoned pen is

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Love’s magic, moist, compelling
Cupid’s arrow poison tipp’d
Words fight, insults camouflaged
Toxic tongue, slow acid dripp’d
Your. One. Job… Follow. The script!

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poison pen letter
bitter with disappointment
roasted his nuts good
toasted and booted his butt good
dog shit in the neighborhood

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toll road to wisdom
full paid in hard consequence
sure cure in the coin
medicine in the murder
born to swallow the poison

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suspicious poison
bright intelligent eyes light
smile warm as the sun

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suspicion’s poison
squander the good-will offered
wonders at welcome

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synthetic falsehoods
call a truth into question
sly poison of lies

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
~William Shakespeare

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
~Frederic Chopin

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Snake’s poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death.
~Rumi

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.
~Suzanne Collins

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We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.
~Donella Meadows

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization ‒ or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
~Orson Scott Card

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Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.
~Ed McCabe

Organisms don’t think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
~Janine Benyus

Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex – pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
~Sam Kean

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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
~Edwin Land

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.
~Liu Xiaobo

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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
~Jean Anouilh

Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.
~Steve Maraboli

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The Olio:
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The Salmagundi:
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