"A poem should not mean but be."

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Source : "Ars Poetica" l. 23 (1926)

Archibald MacLeish

#Mean Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Should Quotes

“Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.”
“It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it's cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don't want to feel that way.”
“I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.”
“When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Death strips all men of dignity.”
“When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.”

Source : "Barrett Brown Sentenced to Five Years, Vows to Keep Investigating Government Wrongdoing". Interview with Michelle Garcia, theintercept.com. January 23, 2015.
“What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.”
“I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.”

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