"In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively"

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Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

James Schuyler

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising”
“People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.”
“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”
“I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.”
“Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.34, New Society Publishers
“The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.”
“Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.”
“Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.”

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