"It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity."

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Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

Beatrice Webb

#Writing Quotes #Identity Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.”
“the soul of conversation is sympathy”
“All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.”
“You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.”
“Concepts antedate facts.”
“We are all born to dieâ€”the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”
“Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.”

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