"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Self Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.”
“True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.81, Oxford University Press
“The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.”
“The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.”
“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”
“the one universal form of art is music.”
“Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.”
“Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

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