"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

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Source : "Shadows and Miracles: Poems". Book by Cristina Necula (p. 7), 2007.

Muriel Rukeyser

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“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.”

Source : John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
“Make no apologies for who you are.”
“One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife”
“By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"”
“I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.”
“In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?”
“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”
“My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.”

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