"Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gerald Stern

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“I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.”
“Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.”
“The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. â€˜Inspiration is for amateurs,â€™ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. â€˜The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.”

Source : "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1976.
“The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.”
“Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.”
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”

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