"I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

#Feelings Quotes #Perception Quotes #Musical Quotes

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.”
“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
“In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt”
“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.”
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”
“In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.”

Source : Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.19, Canongate Books
“A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress.”
“I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.”

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