"I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching."

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Source : Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

Robert Lowell

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“Thatâ€™s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.”
“On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.”
“We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.”
“Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.”
“One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.”
“I think a lot of women who are celebrities and who are very beautiful have terrible problems with their men being very controlling. Women allow themselves to be dominated and controlled by men in all sorts of other ways that are very complicated, you know? I don't really see a lot of women engaging in discussions about the struggles and power relations with men and their lives, like their bosses, boyfriends, husbands, coworkers. I don't see that happening very often, whereas I see a lot of misogyny on the internet. I see a lot of hatred towards women and a lot of fear of women.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.”

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