"The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'"

-- Peter Yarrow

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“...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.”
“Much of the visualizing is imaginative.”

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“Expand the leadership.”
“I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.”
“I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.”
“I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.”
“...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

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