"I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded."

-- Ingmar Bergman

#Liars Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.”
“My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers.”
“Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.”
“Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press
“Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.”
“Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
“Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.”

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