"As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me."

-- Woody Guthrie

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“The best age is the age you are.”
“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”
“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”
“Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.”
“It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.”
“I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.”
“A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing
“Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences”

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