"Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring."

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Source : Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

Alice Cary

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“Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.”
“He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.”
“I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.”
“Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.”
“I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Iâ€™ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you donâ€™t, thatâ€™s fine too. But you should probably read more.”
“When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.”

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