"It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead."

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John Mark McMillan

#Religious Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.”
“Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.”
“We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.”
“Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.”
“For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have itâ€™s poetry, Iâ€™ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.
“Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.”

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