"I intend 'DÃ¤mmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany."

-- Simon Armitage

#War Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Ironic Quotes

“Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.”
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.”
“The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.”
“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”

Source : Judy Fiskin, Christopher Knight (1988). “Judy Fiskin”, A R T Pr
“Love would never leave us alone”
“Every shot should be a knockout shot.”

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