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“Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.”
Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.”
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“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”
Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press
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“The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.”
Source : James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”
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“I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.”
Source : Source: visionlossresources.org
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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
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“It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government.”
Source : "Jeremy Corbyn ignores calls to stand down - how the day unfolded". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2016.