"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Long Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Doe Quotes

“It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.”
“Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy whoâ€™s freezing his ***** off back in Brooklyn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.”

Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.
“O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the cost to fight without fear of being wounded to work without seeking rest and to spend myself without expecting any reward but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen”
“poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
“To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.”

Source : "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.

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