"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."

-- Philip Levine

#Conscious Quotes #States Quotes #Notion Quotes

“We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.”
“Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.”
“While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.”
“We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”
“What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?”
“To save the people from themselves it would take a greater fear than the earth has ever seen.”
“Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]”
“Failure comes part and parcel with invention. Itâ€™s not optional.”

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