"Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love."

-- Willard Scott

#Hero Quotes #Roger Quotes #And Love Quotes

“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.”
“Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
“Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in”
“The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.”
“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 1, 2011
“The fundamental way of getting public approval is to deserve it.”
“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.”

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