"Invent a new language anyone can understand."

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Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Language Quotes #Creation Quotes

“If you donâ€™t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, youâ€™re not going to resonate very much.”
“I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.”

Source : "Ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp reuniting rentals for 'the long haul'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2006.
“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”
“You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead â€”and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”

Source : Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.292, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.”
“The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.”
“It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.”
“A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.”

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