Reg Butler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.
-- Reg Butler

#Morning #Being Alone #Attention
The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.
-- Reg Butler

#Men #Rocks #Doubt

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
Because I canâ€™t live without Della. I donâ€™t want to. Sheâ€™s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,

Reg Butler famous quotes

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