"Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text."

-- Fred D'Aguiar

#Emotional Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Argument Quotes

“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.10, Harper Collins
“I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly”
“Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.”
“Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.”
“I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.”
“Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.”
“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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