"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."

-- Kenneth Koch

#New York Quotes #Poetic Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.”
“It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.”
“All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.”
“Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.”
“Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.”

Source : George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.158, Basic Books
“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

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