"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"

-- Ezra Pound

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“When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.”

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press
“What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.”

Source : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
“I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.”
“The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.”
“My motto is: more good times.”

Source : "Jack Nicholson's What I've Learned: "My Motto Is: More Good Times" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 19, 2015.
“Under your skin the moon is alive.”
“I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.”
“In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.”

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