"I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials."

-- May Sarton

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“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”
“My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!”
“Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.”
“In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.”
“When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.”
“I'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.”

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“To look deeply into the lawn and see six shades of green - there is hardly that respite for you. And that's our job that we're doing. And it's even more demanding for someone like yourself, who is so extremely creative. But you have to move forward. You cannot just wallow or sit back and take in the accolades. They're wonderful, the accolades, and you appreciate them. But then you go on to the next moment. You have to always be going out to the end of the diving board and diving off.”
“What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.”

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