"By eloquence I understand those appeals to..." - Quote by Kobe Bryant
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
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“When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.”
“I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.”
“I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.”
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“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth,From earth to heaven.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”