"Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet."

-- Mary Ruefle

#Bird Quotes #Poet Quotes

“If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.”
“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”
“How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.”

Source : Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms (1971). “Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896”
“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”
“Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.”
“Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!”
“I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.”
“When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.”

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