"I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids."

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Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

Michael Longley

#Ambition Quotes #Mean Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.”
“I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.”

Source : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
“It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.”
“Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL”
“Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.”
“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”

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