"I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat."

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Source : John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

John Marin

#Finishing Quotes #Sides Quotes #Boat Quotes

“I am forever grateful for Cheers.”
“There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.”
“For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.”
“Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.”
“Iâ€™m a bowling pin, even when I fall Iâ€™ll always stand back up.”
“Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.”

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