Comforting Quotations
"When I despair,
I remember that all
through history the way
of truth and
love
has always won.
There have
been tyrants,
and murderers, and for
a time
they can seem invincible,
but in the end
they always fall,
always."
Mahatma Gandhi
Biography requires an art "subtle and bold enough to present that queer amalgamation of dream and reality, that perpetual marriage of granite and rainbow."
Virginia Woolf 1927
"I'm not interested in theory; I'm interested in practice...in seeing what effect it has when a line ends in a certain place or when there is a pause in the middle of the line, or what the effect of a certain rhyme scheme will be on certain subject matter. Poetry, properly approached, is just as accessible as prose."
Thom Gunn 1998
"As humor bests aggression and curiosity bests xenophobia, the world improves."
Helen Vendler 1996
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
Lao Tzu 570 - 490 BC
"This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
And lads and girls...
Was laughter and ability and sighing
And frocks and curls..."
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
"If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all."
John Keats 1795 - 1821
"A heart in half is chaste, archaic
But mine resembles a mosaic
The thing's become ridiculous
Why am I so? Why am I thus?
Dorothy Parker 1893 - 1967
The act of writing is very hypnotic. It's like dreaming awake. In fact, when those scientists, those sleep researchers, hook up their EEGs to the heads of people who are composing, they get those big delta waves that they associate with dreaming. It's like regressing somebody in a hypnotic trance. If I say in a book like "It" or a book like "Stand by Me" ("The Body") that I want to write about what it was like to be a kid, when I was a kid, my first thought is, "Gee, I really don't remember that much." But if you start, little by little you are able to regress, and the more you write the brighter the images become.
Stephen King ~ 1999
Collected Work 1997 ~ 2000
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