"The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song."

-- Herbert Read

#Song Quotes #Use Quotes #Speech Quotes

“The only way to be productive is to be positive.”
“There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.”
“Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.”
“In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.”
“And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.Â One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.Â Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.”
“Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.”
“It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.”

Source : Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”

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