"I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic."

-- Alfred Brendel

#Desire Quotes #Needs Quotes #Fantastic Quotes

“Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody the same. There are thousands and thousands of people suffering. What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give. Start giving. See the joy of giving.”
“Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.”
“The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.”
“To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.”
“The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.”
“These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.”
“I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.”

Source : "La Havas Brings Her Soulful Songs Across The Pond". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 24, 2012.

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