"The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.”

Source : Damon Galgut (2011). “The Impostor”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.”

Source : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.142, Shambhala Publications
“There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.”
“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.”
“On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.”
“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.”

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