"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

-- Allen Ginsberg

#Time Quotes #Lying Quotes #Party Quotes

“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
“When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock it... Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself”

Source : FaceBook post by Dwayne The Rock Johnson from Oct 11, 2011
“What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.”
“I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens”
“The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.”
“If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another”
“Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.”
“Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage”

Source : Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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