"Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness."

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Stephen Spender

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“Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". 'Doctor Who' ('The Two Doctors'), 16 February - 2 March, 1985.
“Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.”
“If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.”
“Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?”
“Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.”
“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”
“A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.”
“Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.”

Source : Richard Serra (1994). “Writings/Interviews”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

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