"Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that wonâ€™t."

-- Dorianne Laux

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What are the questions you wish to ask?”
“The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."”

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“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 170, 1929.
“You must begin with God.”
“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”

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