"Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Roots Quotes #Tree Quotes #Branches Quotes

“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.”
“If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.”
“Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.”

Source : Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.93, Rodale
“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”
“If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.”
“I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.”
“Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.”

Source : "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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