"The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech."

-- Kenneth Rexroth

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“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”
“I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.”
“For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time”

Source : "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.
“The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.”

Source : "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.
“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”
“I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.”
“We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.”
“There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.”

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