"The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears."

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Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Buffalo Yoga: Poems”, p.52, Macmillan

Charles Wright

#Memories Quotes

“Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others”
“I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”

Source : 'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).
“Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.”
“I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.”

Source : Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.
“I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.”
“My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.”
“I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.”

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

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