"But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at."

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Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

Louise Bogan

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“No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

Source : Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.1, Hachette UK
“Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.”

Source : "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.
“Tax what you burn not what you earn.”
“There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.”
“Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.”
“Meditation is bringing the mind home.”
“We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.”

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