"At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy."

-- Blake Morrison

#Writing Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Long Quotes

“Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.”
“Photography is my passion.”
“We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.”
“I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.”
“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”
“A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.”
“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage

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