"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Custody Quotes

“I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.”
“To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable. The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.”
“To love is to transform; to be a poet.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1991). “Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.”
“[Leonardo DiCaprio] is so cool. He was one of the coolest, down-to-earth people that I think I've ever met. I've never experienced meeting someone like that, [who could] just be so cool and down-to-earth and welcoming.”
“A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.”
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin”
“Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.549, Random House

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