"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"

-- Robert Fitzgerald

#Over You Quotes #Way Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.”
“There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.”
“I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". "Today" with Jim Naughtie, www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

Source : John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage
“Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.”
“It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.”
“Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.”
“If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.”

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