"I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Blessing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Evil Quotes

“No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.”

Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.20, Routledge
“I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.”
“I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around the world, close or far. In order to transform this information into art you have to add poetry. It's essential.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.”
“There was a real sophistication and elegance to (Batman: The Animated Series). It certainly appealed to kids but had a depth that really made it fascinating and interesting to watch for adult fans. I think visually, it was stylistically stunning.”
“A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.”
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.”
“To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.”

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