"In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You canâ€™t pick up a page. All the words slide off."

-- William H. Gass

#Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes

“The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.”
“Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.”
“The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead”
“If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.”
“Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.”
“The truth is always more heroic than the hype.”
“Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.”
“God grants an easy death only to the just.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.14, HarperCollins

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