"Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity."

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Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

Yvor Winters

#Sea Quotes #Land Quotes #Sight Quotes

“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Source : James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK
“Poetry is the purest form of insanity.”
“I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.”
“Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?”

Source : marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”
“Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.”
“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.”
“The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.”

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