"I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song ."

-- Stephen Spender

#Song Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure”
“I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.”
“What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.”
“Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.”
“It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.”

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