"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

-- Leonard Cohen

#Writing Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Burning Quotes

“belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production”
“Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?”
“God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.”
“The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.324, Paulist Press
“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.”

Source : Amedeo Modigliani, José María Faerna (1997). “Modigliani”, Harry N. Abrams
“The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.”
“I watched a lot of comedy growing up.”
“There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world.”

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