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Category Archives: Quotes
What William Carlos Williams Said
Poetry has to do with the dynamization of emotion into a separate form. This is the force of imagination.
‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’
What Robert Frost Said
“Words add to the senses. The words for the dazzle
Of mica, the dithering of grass,
The Arachne integument of dead trees,
Are the eye grown larger, more intense.”— from “Variations on a Summer Day” by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens Said
W. H. Auden Said
“We are here on Earth to help others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.”
– W. H. Auden
What I Ching Said
What has been spoiled through man’s fault can be made good again through man’s work. – I Ching
Paulo Coelho Said
“Never be ashamed,” he said. “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” – Paulo Coelho
“Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.”
-from When Women Were Birds
What Terry Tempest Williams Said
“Of course it is impossible to tell the truth. For example, how does one know it? I will not belabor the difficulty by telling you how hard I have tried. And if compulsion forces me to tell the truth, it may also lead me into error, or invention.”