"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Steps Quotes #Poet Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.”
“When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.”
“Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.”
“Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.”
“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position”
“Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.”
“In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.”

Source : "As A Latina, Sonia Sotomayor Says, 'You Have To Work Harder'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 13, 2014.
“Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.”

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