"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."

-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Half Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?”
“Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.”
“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”
“I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.”
“The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.”
“I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.”
“I collect books - a lot of books.”
“I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.”

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