"Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field."

-- Kathleen Raine

#Art Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Special Quotes

“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”
“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”
“I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.”
“No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.”
“Credulity is always ridiculous.”
“I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.”
“The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.”
“I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"”

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