"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough."

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Source : Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

Toni Morrison

#Nature Quotes #World Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.”
“Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.”
“Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.”
“A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.”
“The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.”
“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

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“All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.”
“Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know whoâ€™s boss.”

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