"I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Ernesto Cardenal

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Four Quotes

“Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.”
“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”
“The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.”
“My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.”

Source : Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”
“Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale
“When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.”
“Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.”

Source : Richard Kirwan (1799). “Geological essays”, p.5

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