"The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature.Â It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M."

-- Theo Dorgan

#Dancing Quotes #People Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again”
“You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.”
“The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”
“Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.”
“Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.94, Faber & Faber
“Thank God for a few free waves.”
“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.”
“Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.”

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