"Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people."

-- Henry Williamson

#People Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.”

Source : Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.57, Penguin
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
“The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge”
“Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really am to see another day. There are so many who may have not woken up to see it but I have been blessed.”
“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”
“Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.
“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”
“I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”

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