"Bad literature is a form of treason."

-- Joseph Brodsky

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“My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daÃ¯s of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”
“I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.”
“I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.”
“Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”
“I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.”
“The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.61, Image Continuum Press
“We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.”
“Weâ€™re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people havenâ€™t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something thatâ€™s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. Itâ€™s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. Youâ€™re on it, and you canâ€™t get off.”

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