"The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites."

-- Robert Graves

#Religious Quotes #Experience Quotes #Use Quotes

“My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.”
“Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.”
“You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.”
“If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?”
“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.”

Source : Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!”
“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.”
“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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