"Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her."

-- Samuel Adams

#America Quotes #Effort Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.”
“If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.”
“Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the words themselves, but of a thought, a situation, a parallel reality? If not used appropriately, words in poetry are like the ugly remains of food after eating. What I mean is that readers will reject words if they don't serve to shift attention from themselves to somewhere else.”
“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
“We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.”
“It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.”
“The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked”
“I write with my past, about the future, for the present”

Source : Song: On This I Stand

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