"When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of opening up the part of the brain that makes poems. If I'm successful in this part of the process I'm often not. If my mind gets too lazy it will linger in familiar boring territory, it's like my mind can stroke the physical world."

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Dawn Lundy Martin

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“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”

Source : Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own...”
“I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.”
“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”
“As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.”

Source : "Rachel Zoe's Best Fashion Moments" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. September 1, 2013.
“In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs â€” not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.”
“But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.”
“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr

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