"The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Campbell McGrath

#Powerful Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Life in general you gotta believe in you.... you live your life for you, you do what you do for you, because the moment you start to live your life for others you'll lose yaself within that. Focus on what it is you want to have. Go get it.”
“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.”
“I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.”
“No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.”
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”

Source : "Rancho Libido and Other Hot Spots" by Shelia Ballantyne, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 1985.
“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

Source : Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.70, Bantam
“I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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