"Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Community Quotes #Poet Quotes #Imaginative Quotes

“It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.”
“The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; ''tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone'; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.”

Source : "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.
“The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul.”
“My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.”
“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
“When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.”
“Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”
“People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.”

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