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“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”
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“Democrats have simply lost the country.”
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“When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.”
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“Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...”
Source : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”
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“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
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“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
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“Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.”
Source : Iris Murdoch (1956). “The flight from the enchanter”, Viking Pr
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“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”
Source : "Interview with Ed Hirsch". "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series", 1986.
