"True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age."

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Sophie Swetchine

#Artist Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.”
“For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began”
“Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.”
“I loved doing Cee Loâ€™s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Ridaâ€™s Right Round, because I could rap, which Iâ€™ve never really done before.”
“Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
“I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.”
“If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.”
“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 18, 2017

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