Tift Merritt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.
-- Tift Merritt

#Fire #Alive #Vigilant
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
-- Tift Merritt

#Writing #Land #Ukulele
My work is has always been very, very personal.
-- Tift Merritt

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A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.
-- Tift Merritt

#People #Vision #Energy

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heavenâ€™s mouth.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
There's a fire starting in my heart
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

Tift Merritt famous quotes

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