"These poems need to be released from their cages,"

-- Coleman Barks

#Needs Quotes #Cages Quotes

“Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.”
“I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.”
“Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.”
“The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.”
“I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.”

Source : "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
“Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'”

Source : The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)
“I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.”
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.83, Bantam

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