"History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes."

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Source : Robert Lowell (2017). “New Selected Poems”, p.145, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Robert Lowell

#Writing Quotes #Dull Quotes #Writing Life Quotes

“Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.”
“Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.”

Source : Jesse Duplantis Ministries (1993). “The Ministry of Cheerfulness: How the Healing Power of Joy Can Change the World Around You”
“Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.”
“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.”
“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was Godâ€™s.”
“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”
“...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.”

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