"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble"

-- Charles Olson

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband makes $300 million a year. She has to get by on $200 million a year, and that's not fair.”
“It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.”
“The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.”
“The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.”
“I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.”
“Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.”
“I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.”

Source : Letter to William Thomson, January 2, 1851.
“Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?”

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