Poetry Quote by Nick Hornby — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.”

“Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you and despair, and you don't seem a very desperate person.'”

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”

“The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.”

“Now therefore, while the youthful hue”

“What happens to a dream deferred?”

“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?”

“Verde que te quiero verde.”