"Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride."

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Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.80, Macmillan

Charles Wright

#Matter Quotes #Voyages Quotes

“At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.”
“Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.”
“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.”
“Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.”
“He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.”
“I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.”
“The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.”
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his viewâ€”even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: â€˜charactersâ€™ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”

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