"My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war."

-- James Fenton

#War Quotes #Simple Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The future of American film lies on television.”
“How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree”
“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”
“I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.”

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“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.”
“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”
“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
“The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind”

Source : Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

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