"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

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Source : Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

Charles Olson

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“The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.”

Source : Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.25, Vintage
“When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.”
“Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value”
“Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.”
“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.”
“The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.”
“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

Source : Todd Strasser (2012). “Give a Boy a Gun”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.”

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