"A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address."

-- Matthea Harvey

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press
“Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.”
“When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, "Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?" But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.”

Source : "Nicola Formichetti on His Latest Muse". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. February 6, 2013.
“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'”

Source : "Hargrave Military Academy: Catalog and Announcements for session 1944-1945", 1944.
“You don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.”
“Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.”
“Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.”

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