"The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'"

-- James Fenton

#Memories Quotes #Voice Quotes #Speech Quotes

“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
“I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant”

Source : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem”
“Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.”
“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.”
“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”
“'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.”
“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

Source : Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage
“Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.”

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