"Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Asking Quotes

“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”

Source : Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”
“The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.”
“Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.”
“My inner world creates my outer world.”
“The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the same because Canadians are supremely polite. They're kind and they're just so welcoming to a bunch of American and British artists here filming their show.”
“Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.”
“Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.”
“Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.”

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