"Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure."

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Determination Quotes #Men Quotes #Wind Quotes

“How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?”
“Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort”
“When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.”
“I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.”
“If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard....”
“I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.”
“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.”

Source : Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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