"Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Poetry Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.”

Source : Neil Clark Warren (1998). “The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets”, Focus on the Family Pub
“The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.”
“Nature hates calculators.”
“There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.”
“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”
“Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.”
“People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.”

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